Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.p.

Virginia Quance Herrera

Christoph J Graham

Thomas J Flynn

Tom Flynn

Thomas Joseph Flynn

Examples associated with keyboard emulation are described. One example system includes an input/output controller. The system also includes a remote signal receiver. A control module receives a first signal via the remote signal receiver. Based on the first signal, the control module communicates with the input/output controller to emulate a keyboard input.

Keyboard emulation

Example implementations relate to determining a device wear-rate. An example system for determining a device wear-rate can include a plurality of filter drivers to: monitor system requests for I/O associated with a device of the system and transmit information associated with the system requests to a filter manager. The system can also include the filter manager to catalog the information, a service to collate the information across a plurality of machine configurations and workloads, and a processor to determine a wear-rate of the device based on an analysis of the collated information.

Determining a device wear-rate

An example method for monitoring different data storage devices across a network includes receiving data storage access requests made to different data storage devices across a network. A subset of the access requests to a taxon of a taxonomy of access request characteristics. For the taxon, a taxon threshold is determined for a parameter based upon the subset of access requests. The parameter of a sample of observed access requests, made to a data storage device and belonging to the taxon, is compared to the taxon threshold. A notification regarding the data storage device is made based upon the comparison.

Data storage device monitoring

In an example method, write commands for a solid-state storage medium having storage region are received. Selected write commands are filtered out according to criteria. The selected write commands are cached. Writing pursuant to the selected write commands is aggregated to within boundaries of one of the storage regions of the storage medium.

Write commands filtering

Example implementations relate to read operation redirect. For example, a system according in the present disclosure may include a data storage device accessible by a host. The system may include an input/output filter of an operating system of the host. The input/output filter may monitor read operations and write operations from the host to the data storage device. The input/output filter may copy a portion of the data storage device to a random-access memory (RAM) buffer within the host responsive to monitored read operations to the portion exceeding a threshold. The input/output filter may redirect a successive read operation, addressed to the portion of the data storage device, to the copy of the portion in the RAM buffer.

Read operation redirect

An example port protector includes a plug housing including an exterior surface and an interior surface, the plug housing sized to mate with a data communication port of an electronic device. The port protector also includes an opening extending from the exterior surface to the interior surface. The port protector further includes a storage container disposed within the plug housing, the storage container to release an adhesive agent via the opening based on an interaction between the plug housing and the data communication port.

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Houston, TX, United States of America

Virginia Quance Herrera