Invention Grant
US09256569B2 Monitoring and managing storage drives and performing backplane controller firmware using a USB interface
有权
使用USB接口监控和管理存储驱动器并执行背板控制器固件
- Patent Title: Monitoring and managing storage drives and performing backplane controller firmware using a USB interface
- Patent Title (中): 使用USB接口监控和管理存储驱动器并执行背板控制器固件
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Application No.: US14190937Application Date: 2014-02-26
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Publication No.: US09256569B2Publication Date: 2016-02-09
- Inventor: Jay Pancholi , Kayalvizhi Dhandapani , Clas Gerhard Sivertsen
- Applicant: AMERICAN MEGATRENDS, INC.
- Applicant Address: US GA Norcross
- Assignee: AMERICAN MEGATRENDS, INC.
- Current Assignee: AMERICAN MEGATRENDS, INC.
- Current Assignee Address: US GA Norcross
- Agency: Locke Lord LLP
- Agent Tim Tingkang Xia, Esq.
- Main IPC: G06F3/00
- IPC: G06F3/00 ; G06F13/42 ; G06F13/14 ; G06F12/02 ; G06F13/38 ; G06F11/30 ; G06F11/22
Abstract:
Certain aspects relate to monitoring and managing storage drives installed on a backplane and performing backplane controller firmware update through a universal serial bus (USB) interface. When the backplane controller is connected to a host computer via the USB interface, the backplane controller sends USB descriptors to the host computer through the USB interface such that the host computer recognizes the backplane controller as a specific human interface device (HID) device based on the USB descriptors. Thus, the backplane controller and the host computer may transmit backplane drive management messages, such as the result to monitor and manage the storage drives, or the control commands and control data to monitor and manage the storage drives and to update the firmware of the backplane controller, as USB HID reports in a predefined format based on the USB descriptors.
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