Adapter to concatenate connectors
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsAndrew David BODLEY, Byron A. ALCORN, Shane WARD
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Abstract
Examples disclosed herein involve a first connector that facilitates access to a system, a second connector that facilitates access to the same system, and an adapter controller to facilitate concatenating functionality of the first connector and the second connector when the apparatus is communicatively coupled to the system via the first connector and the second connector; and establish a high speed connection between the system and the apparatus via the first connector and the second connector.
Claims15
An apparatus comprising:
- a first connector that facilitates access to a system;
- a second connector that facilitates access to the same system;
- and
- an adapter controller to:
- facilitate concatenating functionality of the first connector and the second connector when the apparatus is communicatively coupled to the system via the first connector and the second connector;
- and
- establish a high speed connection between the system and the apparatus via the first connector and the second connector.
A method comprising:
- identifying a connection from a connection adapter to a system platform, the connection established via a first connector of the system platform and a second connector of the system platform;
- and
- instructing, via a processor of the connection adapter, the system platform to concatenate resources of the first connector and resources of the second connector such that the concatenated resources provide a high speed connection to a peripheral device via the connection adapter.
A non-transitory computer readable storage medium comprising executable instructions that, when executed, cause a machine to at least:
- concatenate resources of a first connector and a second connector in response to receiving instructions from a connection adapter by adjusting flexible input/output lanes connected to the first connector and the second connector;
- and
- establish a high speed communication link using the concatenated resources with a peripheral device via the adapter through the first connector and the second connector.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.