Patent 7636797 was granted and assigned to Atmel Corporation on December, 2009 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Multiple devices coupled to a communication system share a common or same configuration address. For each configuration address, multiple configuration registers are defined by the communication system. Each device sharing a common configuration address responds to a communication command after the configuration address and the configuration register have been identified as being assigned to or associated with the specific device having the assigned configuration address and configuration register.