Back to results
US 2014/0372659 A1Published application
Asymmetrical universal serial bus communications
AssigneeIntel Corporation
InventorsGary Solomon, Robert A. Dunstan, Joe Schaefer, Brad Saunders
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
In some embodiments a Universal Serial Bus cable includes a first differential pair to transmit bus signals, and a second differential pair to transmit bus signals in a same direction as the bus signals transmitted by the first differential pair. In this manner, a bandwidth of the Universal Serial Bus cable is doubled in that same direction. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
Claims20
A Universal Serial Bus cable comprising:
- a first differential pair to transmit bus signals;
- and
- a second differential pair to transmit bus signals in a same direction as the bus signals transmitted by the first differential pair, wherein a bandwidth of the Universal Serial Bus cable is doubled in the same direction.
A system comprising:
- a first Universal Serial Bus device;
- a second Universal Serial Bus device;
- and
- a Universal Serial Bus cable to couple the first Universal Serial Bus device and the second Universal Serial Bus device, the Universal Serial Bus cable including:
- a first differential pair to transmit bus signals;
- and
- a second differential pair to transmit bus signals in a same direction as the bus signals transmitted by the first differential pair, wherein a bandwidth of the Universal Serial Bus cable is doubled in the same direction.
4 more elements
A method comprising:
- enabling a first differential pair of a Universal Serial Bus cable to point in a same direction as a second differential pair of a Universal Serial Bus cable in order to transmit bus signals on the first differential pair and the second differential pair in the same direction, wherein a bandwidth of the Universal Serial Bus cable is doubled in the same direction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.