Optical transceiver monitoring system
AssigneeDell Products L.P.
InventorsSudharsan Dhamal Gopalarathnam, Vamshidhar Varre
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Abstract
An optical transceiver monitoring system includes an optical transceiver device that includes a non-volatile memory system, and a computing device that includes a computing device port that is coupled to the optical transceiver device. The computing device monitors the computing device port and, in response, detects one or more interactions between the optical transceiver device and the computing device. The computing device determines that the one or more interactions satisfy an event condition, and in response to the one or more interactions satisfying the event condition, provides first event information that corresponds to the one or more interactions to the optical transceiver device for storage in the non-volatile memory system.
Claims20
An optical transceiver monitoring system, comprising:
- an optical transceiver device that includes a non-volatile memory system;
- and
- a computing device that includes a computing device port that is connected to an optical transceiver device port connector on the optical transceiver device, wherein the computing device is configured to:
- perform at least one of:
- transmitting, via the computing device port and the optical transceiver device port connector, electrical data to the optical transceiver device to cause the optical transceiver device to convert that electrical data to optical data and transmit the optical data via an optical cable coupling;
- or
- receiving, via the computing device port and the optical transceiver device port connector, electrical data from the optical transceiver device that was provided by the optical transceiver device using optical data received via the optical cable coupling;
- detect, at the computing device port through which the electrical data is transmitted to the optical transceiver device or the electrical data is received from the optical transceiver device, one or more interactions between the optical transceiver device and the computing device;
- determine that the one or more interactions satisfy an event condition;
- and
- provide, in response to the one or more interactions satisfying the event condition and via the computing device port and the optical transceiver device port connector for storage in the non-volatile memory system in the optical transceiver device, first event information that corresponds to the one or more interactions.
An Information Handling System (IHS), comprising:
- a processing system;
- and
- a memory system that is coupled to the processing system and that includes instructions that, when executed by the processing system, cause the processing system to provide an optics monitoring engine that is configured to:
- perform at least one of:
- transmitting, via a port connected to the processing system, electrical data to an optical transceiver device to cause the optical transceiver device to convert that electrical data to optical data and transmit the optical data via an optical cable coupling;
- or
- receiving, via the port, electrical data from the optical transceiver device that was provided by the optical transceiver device using optical data received via the optical cable coupling;
- detect, at the port through which the electrical data is transmitted to the optical transceiver device or the electrical data is received from the optical transceiver device, one or more interactions between the port and the optical transceiver device;
- determine that the one or more interactions satisfy an event condition;
- and
- provide, in response to the one or more interactions satisfying the event condition and via the port to the optical transceiver device for storage in a non-volatile memory system included in the optical transceiver device, first event information that corresponds to the one or more interactions to the optical transceiver device.
A method of logging events corresponding with the use of an optical transceiver device, comprising:
- performing, by a computing device, at least one of:
- transmitting, via a port that is included on the computing device, electrical data to an optical transceiver device to cause the optical transceiver device to convert that electrical data to optical data and transmit the optical data via an optical cable coupling;
- or
- receiving, via the port that is included on the computing device, electrical data from the optical transceiver device that was provided by the optical transceiver device using optical data received via the optical cable coupling;
- detecting, by the computing device at the port through which the electrical data is transmitted to the optical transceiver device or the electrical data is received from the optical transceiver device, one or more interactions between the port and the optical transceiver device;
- determining, by the computing device, that the one or more interactions satisfy an event condition;
- and
- providing, by the computing device and in response to the one or more interactions satisfying the event condition, first event information that corresponds to the one or more interactions to the optical transceiver device for storage in a non-volatile memory system included in the optical transceiver device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.