USB-C usage indication
AssigneeGoogle Inc.
InventorsOmri Amarilio, Katie Leah Roberts-Hoffman, Alexander Friedrich Kuscher
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Abstract
A method includes establishing a power link between a power source and a computing device using a cable assembly, the cable assembly including at least one indicator, monitoring a status of the power link at the computing device, determining if the status of the power link includes establishing a communication link, and upon determining the status of the power link includes establishing the communication link determining a direction of data flow along the cable assembly associated with the communication link, and generating a signal using the at least one indicator, the signal indicating the direction of data flow along the cable assembly.
Claims15
A method comprising:
- establishing a power link between a power source and a computing device using a cable assembly, the cable assembly including at least one indicator;
- monitoring a status of the power link at the computing device wherein monitoring the status of the power link includes monitoring data packets communicated via an interface of the computing device that is coupled to the cable assembly;
- determining if the status of the power link includes establishing a communication link based on a threshold quantity of data that is transmitted over the cable assembly, wherein determining the status of the power link includes counting a number of the data packets and a size of the data packets communicated on the interface;
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- upon determining the status of the power link includes establishing the communication link:
- determining a direction of data flow along the cable assembly associated with the communication link wherein determining the direction of data flow includes determining if at least one of the number of the data packets or a size of the data packets exceeds the threshold-number of bits, and
- generating a signal using the at least one indicator, the signal indicating the direction of data flow along the cable assembly.
A computing device, comprising:
- an interface configured to couple a cable assembly to the computing device to establish a power link between a power source and the computing device using the cable assembly, the cable assembly including at least one indicator;
- a first controller configured to monitor a status of the power link at the computing device, wherein monitoring the status of the power link includes monitoring data packets communicated via an interface of the computing device that is coupled to the cable assembly;
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- a second controller configured to determine if the status of the power link includes establishing a communication link based on a threshold quantity of data that is transmitted over the cable assembly, wherein determining the status of the power link includes counting a number of the data packets and a size of the data packets communicated on the interface, and
- upon determining the status of the power link includes establishing the communication link:
- determining a direction of data flow along the cable assembly associated with the communication link wherein determining the direction of data flow includes determining if at least one of the number of the data packets or a size of the data packets exceeds the threshold number of bits, and
- generating a signal using the at least one indicator, the signal indicating the direction of data flow along the cable assembly.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.