Electronic equipment for the replication of ports and the routing of digital signals

• US 9,747,243 B2
• Filed: 02/19/2013
• Issued: 08/29/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 02/23/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: eDevice
• Original Assignee: eDevice
• Inventors: Berrebi, Marc
• Primary Examiner(s): Tsai, Henry
• Assistant Examiner(s): Daley, Christopher A
• Application Number:
  US14/378,476
• Publication Number:
  US 20150081938A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,652 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 13/385 for adaptation of a particular data processing system to different peripheral devices
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 13/4068 Electrical coupling
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/02 Capturing of monitoring data
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/80 Services using short range communication, e.g. near-field communication [NFC], radio-frequency identification [RFID] or low energy communication

Abstract

The present disclosure relates to a piece of electronic equipment for the replication of ports and the routing of digital signals, intended for secure environments for concentrating signals coming from a plurality of pieces of measuring equipment, as well as communication with a piece of supervising equipment. The equipment includes: —N ports whereof M ports are electrically insulated by optoelectronic coupler, N being an integer greater than or equal to 1, and M being an integer between N−1 and N, —a radiofrequency interface with a matched piece of supervising equipment, —a processor performing a protocol conversion between the radiofrequency protocol and the protocol of the ports.

Claims

1. Electronic equipment for the replication of ports and the routing of digital signals, intended for secure environments for concentrating signals coming from a plurality of measurement signals and communicating with supervision equipment, the electronic equipment comprising:

end ports, whereof M ports are electrically isolated by opto-electronic coupler, N being an integer greater than or equal to 1, and M being an integer between N−

1 and N;

a radio-frequency interface with matched supervision equipment; and

a processor implementing a protocol conversion between the radio-frequency protocol and the port protocol;

the radio-frequency interface including one or more interfaces using a transmission protocol with a short radius of action; and

the electronic equipment masking phases of disconnection of a cabled peripheral while maintaining a virtual peripheral on a RF interface.

2. The electronic equipment according to claim 1, wherein N is greater than 3 and M is equal to N−

1.

3. The electronic equipment according to claim 1, wherein at least some of the ports are USB ports.

4. The electronic equipment according to claim 1, wherein at least some of the ports are serial ports.

5. The electronic equipment according to claim 1, wherein the radio-frequency interface is a Wi-Fi interface.

6. The electronic equipment according to claim 1, wherein the radio-frequency interface includes one or more Bluetooth interfaces.

7. The electronic equipment according to claim 1, further comprising automatically converting a proprietary or standard profile used by a cabled periphery to a standard profile used by a virtual RF periphery associated with the cabled periphery.

8. The electronic equipment according to claim 1, further comprising automatically converting several proprietary or standard profiles used by several cabled peripherals to a proprietary or standard profile used by a single virtual RF peripheral associated with several cabled peripherals.