Modifying a configuration of a port hub
Assignee2236008 Ontario Inc.
InventorsYuchen Luo, Gervais Kafwe Mulongoy
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Abstract
In some examples, an electronic device includes a hub configurator to obtain, from a port hub that expands a number of ports for the electronic device, information of topological elements of the port hub, and modify a configuration of the port hub.
Claims24
(canceled)
The electronic device of claim 9, wherein the hub configurator is executable on the processor to interact with a configuration interface of the port hub to obtain the information of the topological elements and to modify the configuration of the port hub.
The electronic device of claim 9, wherein the topological elements comprise the port hub and the plurality of ports of the port hub.
The electronic device of claim 9, wherein the topological elements comprise a bridge through which multiple host devices are to communicate with each other.
(canceled)
The electronic device of claim 9, wherein the dependency further comprises a power dependency among the plurality of ports that share power.
An electronic device comprising:
- a processor;
- and
- a hub configurator executable on the processor to:
- obtain, from a port hub that expands a number of ports for the electronic device, information of topological elements of the port hub, wherein the obtained information of the topological elements of the port hub comprises information specifying a dependency among a plurality of ports of the port hub, and wherein the dependency comprises a maximum active port dependency corresponding to a restriction on a number of ports of the plurality of ports that can be active at a time;
- and
- modify a configuration of the port hub.
An electronic device comprising:
- a processor;
- and
- a hub configurator executable on the processor to:
- obtain, from a port hub that expands a number of ports for the electronic device, information of topological elements of the port hub, wherein the obtained information of the topological elements of the port hub comprises information specifying a dependency among a plurality of ports of the port hub, and wherein the information specifying the dependency among the plurality of ports is included in a configuration object representing a group that includes the plurality of ports;
- and
- modify a configuration of the port hub.
A method performed by an electronic device, comprising:
- obtaining, from a port hub that expands a number of ports for the electronic device, information of topological elements of the port hub, wherein the topological elements comprise a bridge;
- and
- configuring the port hub using a configuration interface of the port hub, wherein configuring the port hub comprises:
- initiating a role swap session with a further device connected to the port hub, and
- configuring the bridge that comprises configuring a port of the port hub as a downstream port that appears as a device to both the electronic device and the further device that behave as host devices, to enable host-to-host communications between the electronic device and the further device using the bridge.
A port hub comprising:
- a plurality of ports to connect to respective devices;
- and
- a configuration interface to:
- provide, to an electronic device connected to a port of the plurality of ports, information of topological elements of the port hub, the information of the topological elements of the port hub comprises information specifying a dependency among the plurality of ports of the port hub, the dependency comprising a maximum active port dependency corresponding to a restriction on a number of ports of the plurality of ports that can be active at a time;
- and
- modify a configuration of the port hub in response to control of the electronic device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.