Electronic device group-coupling system and method

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PATENT NO 9880957
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14682894

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An electronic device coupling system includes a master electronic device and a plurality of slave electronic devices which are each independently connected to the master. The master electronic device includes connecting module and identity module, the slave electronic device includes coupling module and identify module. The identity module stores identity information of each slave device and sends out serially all the identity information. The identify module confirms correspondence of the identity information to a selected slave device. The connecting module has a plurality of matching codes corresponding to each connecting port and each group address code. The master device can couple to a slave device when the identity information corresponds to a selected slave device. The coupling module is couplable to the connecting module according to the matching codes. An electronic device coupling method is further provided.

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HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO LTDNO 66 JHONGSHAN RD TUCHENG DIST NEW TAIPEI CITY 236038

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Lin, Ching-Chung New Taipei, TW 60 186

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