Serial Port Splitter

Serial Port Splitter. Jadhav, Ambadas Dn, Rakesh Naik, Ratan Kumar.

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4. DELL CONFIDENTIAL. Serial Port Splitter. Solution Serial Port Splitter allows to split the serial port to several virtual COM ports which makes multiple applications to access the same serial port data via spitted virtual COM ports simultaneously. Using virtual COM port, each application "thinks" that it works with real device connected to physical COM port. Serial Port Splitter provides you with the full set of capabilities for parallel working with several serial applications or devices..

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6. DELL CONFIDENTIAL. Serial Port Splitter. Novelty and Advantages Customers can split the serial port to multiple virtual COM ports according to their application needs. Without the need of the actual hardware, we can use this software based user-friendly serial port splitter application to connect with virtual com ports and sniff the data communication. Reduces the hardware dependency and the hardware cost . Easy maintenance Easy to combine multiple serial ports into a single virtual one and also splitting a single real port into multiple virtual interfaces. It can be leveraged on any Dell applications that does the serial port communication. For example : Dell Rugged control center application uses the serial port to stream the GPS data, but customer had their own set of applications to receive the GPS data using serial port. But since serial port can’t be shared, the user was not able to receive the data in his applications..