Patent Grant
6523131
This application is a division of to U.S. patent application Ser. No. 08/942,221 entitled, “A System for Communicating a Software Generated Pulse Waveform Between Two Servers in a Network,” which was filed on Oct. 1, 1997, now U.S. Pat. No. 6,163,853 which claims benefit of provisional application Ser. No. 60/046,327 filed May 13, 1997. The following patent applications, commonly owned and filed Oct. 1, 1997, are hereby incorporated herein in their entirety by reference thereto:
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