KEVIN O WILLIAMS
Pharmacy at 24 Ct, Fort Lauderdale, FL

5968158, Oct 19, 1999

Oct 6, 1997

8/944209

Lawrence P. Andrews - Boca Raton FL
Richard Clyde Beckman - Boca Raton FL
Robert Chih-Tsin Eng - Boca Raton FL
Judith Marie Linger - Delray Beach FL
Joseph C. Petty - Boca Raton FL
John Claude Sinibaldi - Pompano Beach FL
Gary L. Turbeville - Boca Raton FL
Kevin Bradley Williams - Plantation FL

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

G06F 946

710260

A pair of communications adapters each include a number of digital signal processors and network interface circuits for the attachment of a multi-channel telephone line. A bus connecting the communications adapters can carry data between a network line attached to one of the adapters and the digital signal processors of the other adapter. The digital signal processors on each card are connected to a host, or controller, processor. Each digital signal processor interrupts its host processor by transmitting an interrupt control block as data to a data memory of the host processor, and by subsequently sending an interrupt causing the host processor to examine the data memory. Preferably, the interrupt control block includes data representing a number of requested interrupts.

6233643, May 15, 2001

Jun 23, 1999

9/338611

Lawrence P. Andrews - Boca Raton FL
Richard Clyde Beckman - Boca Raton FL
Robert Chih-Tsin Eng - Boca Raton FL
Judith Marie Linger - Delray Beach FL
Joseph C. Petty - Boca Raton FL
John Claude Sinibaldi - Pompano Beach FL
Gary L. Turbeville - Boca Raton FL
Kevin Bradley Williams - Plantation FL

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

G06F 1300, G06F 1338

710131

A pair of communications adapters each include a number of digital signal processors and network interface circuits for the attachment of a multi-channel telephone line. A bus connecting the communications adapters can carry data between a network line attached to one of the adapters and the digital signal processors of the other adapter. The digital signal processors on each card are connected to a host, or controller, processor. Each digital signal processor interrupts its host processor by transmitting an interrupt control block as data to a data memory of the host processor, and by subsequently sending an interrupt causing the host processor to examine the data memory. Preferably, the interrupt control block includes data representing a number of requested interrupts.