US 11,899,600 B2Granted

Serial connector adapter system

AssigneeDell Products L.P.

InventorsTimothy M. Lambert, Jeffrey L Kennedy

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Abstract

A serial connector adapter system includes a serial connector adapter device connected to a computing device. The serial connector adapter device includes a serial communication request subsystem coupled to a serial connector and a first USB connector. The computing device includes a second USB connector connected to the first USB connector, a serial communication subsystem coupled to the second USB connector, and a serial communication configuration subsystem coupled to the second USB connector and the serial communication subsystem. The serial communication configuration uses a USB ground drain connection in the first and second USB connectors subsystems to identify the serial connector adapter device and perform bi-directional communications to receive a request for serial communications with the serial communication subsystem and, in response, configures the serial communication subsystem to perform serial communications via the serial connector using USB transmitter/receiver pair connections in the first and second USB connectors.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A serial connector adapter system, comprising:

a serial connector adapter device including:
a serial connector;
a first Universal Serial Bus (USB) connector;
and
a serial communication request subsystem coupled to the serial connector and the first USB connector;
and
a computing device including:
a second USB connector that is connected to the first USB connector;
a serial communication subsystem that is coupled to the second USB connector;
and
a serial communication configuration subsystem that is coupled to the second USB connector and the serial communication subsystem, wherein the serial communication configuration subsystem is configured to:
identify, via a USB ground drain connection in the first USB connector and the second USB connector, the serial connector adapter device;
receive, using bi-directional communications with the serial communication request subsystem via the USB ground drain connection in the first USB connector and the second USB connector, a request for serial communications with the serial communication subsystem;
and
configure, in response to receiving the request for serial communications with the serial communication subsystem, the serial communication subsystem to perform serial communications via the serial connector using one or more USB transmitter/receiver pair connections in the first USB connector and the second USB connector.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 17/583,604Filed 25 Jan 2022
Published: US 2023/0237001 A127 Jul 2023
Granted: 13 Feb 2024
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification7 codes

G06F 13/382
Information transfer, e.g. on bus: using universal interface adapter
G06F 13/385
Using universal interface adapter: for adaptation of a particular data processing system to different peripheral devices
G06F 13/4282
Bus transfer protocol, e.g. handshake; Synchronisation: on a serial bus, e.g. I2C bus, SPI bus
G06F 2213/0012
Indexing scheme relating to interconnection of, or transfer of information or other signals between, memories, input/output devices or central…:…