DETECTING KEY POSITIONS TO DETERMINE A TYPE OF CABLE

• US 20180252757A1
• Filed: 09/19/2017
• Published: 09/06/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 09/20/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Original Assignee: HP Inc.
• Inventors: Truong, Binh T., Nguyen, Nam, Wright, Robert S
• Granted Patent: US 10,641,839 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G01R 31/58 Testing of lines, cables or conductors testing of electric windings G01R31/72
• CPC Class Codes: G01R 31/60 Identification of wires in a multicore cable
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 13/409 Mechanical coupling back panels H05K7/1438
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2213/0042 Universal serial bus [USB]
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 10/00 Energy efficient computing, e.g. low power processors, power management or thermal management

Abstract

Examples disclose a computing system comprising a host device with a connection socket to support multiple types of cables by detecting a first key position and a second key position for determination of the type of cable. Further, the computing system comprises a switching circuit to determine a logic state of each of the key positions. Additionally, the switching circuit is to deliver power associated with the type of cable based on the logic states of the key positions.

Claims

1-15. -15. (canceled)

16. A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium encoded with instructions executable by a processor, the machine-readable storage medium comprising instructions to:

obtain an impedance measurement at each key position of a connection socket;

detect a plugged cable at a key position based on the obtained impedance measurement;

in response to the detected plugged cable at the key position, determine an assigned power level associated to the key position;

deliver a power through the plugged cable according to the determined assigned power level.

17. A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium as recited in claim 16, wherein the impedance measurement of the key position that includes the plugged cable includes a minimal impedance.

18. A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium as recited in claim 16, wherein each key position includes a type of mechanical attribute to match a type of the plugged cable.

19. A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium as recited in claim 18, wherein each type of plugged cable includes a corresponding amount of associated power level.

20. A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium as recited in claim 16, wherein each key position includes a logic state.

21. A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium as recited in claim 20, wherein each logic state corresponds to a type of plugged cable and to a power level associated with the type of plugged cable.

22. A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium as recited in claim 16, wherein the power is delivered through the plugged cable or a separate power cable of the same plugged cable.

23. A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium as recited in claim 16, wherein the connection socket interfaces the plugged cable with a host device that supplies the power.

24. A host device that includes a connection socket with multiple key positions to fit different types of cables, the host device to perform operations comprising:

obtain an impedance measurement at each of the multiple key positions of the connection socket;

detect a connected cable at a key position based upon the obtained impedance measurement at the key position;

deliver a power through the detected connected cable at the key position.

25. A host device as recited in claim 24, wherein the host device to measure a minimal impedance on the key position that includes the connected cable.

26. A host device as recited in claim 24, wherein each key position includes a type of mechanical attribute to match a type of the connected cable.

27. A host device as recited in claim 26, wherein the host device includes a switching circuit to assign logic states to each key position, wherein each logic state corresponds to a type of connected cable and to a power level associated with the type of plugged cable.

28. A method executed by a computing device comprising:

obtaining an impedance measurement at each key position of a connection socket;

detecting a plugged cable at a key position based upon the obtained impedance measurement at the key position

in response to the detected plugged cable at the key position, determining an assigned voltage level associated to the key position;

delivering a power through the key position and the plugged cable based on the determined assigned voltage level.

29. A method as recited in claim 28, wherein the impedance measurement of the key position that includes the plugged cable includes a minimal impedance.

30. A method as recited in claim 28, wherein each key position includes a type of mechanical attribute to match a type of the plugged cable.