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Date of Patent:
May. 07, 2019

Filed:

Feb. 27, 2015
Applicant:

Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);

Inventors:

Andrew Bowers, San Francisco, CA (US);

James Tanner, Los Gatos, CA (US);

Joseph Edward Clayton, San Francisco, CA (US);

Mark D. Hayter, Menlo Park, CA (US);

Christopher Lyon, Santa Clara, CA (US);

David Ness Schneider, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Assignee:

GOOGLE LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 13/00 (2006.01); G06F 13/40 (2006.01); G06F 13/42 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 13/4068 (2013.01); G06F 13/4221 (2013.01); G06F 13/4226 (2013.01);
Abstract

In one general aspect, a method can include configuring a first connector of a particular type included in a first multipurpose port located on a first side of a computing device to connect the computing device to a first peripheral device, transporting one or more of power, high-speed data, and display data between the computing device and the first peripheral device using the first multipurpose port, configuring a second connector of the particular type included in a second multipurpose port located on a second side of the computing device to connect the computing device to a second peripheral device, and transporting one or more of power, high-speed data, and display data between the computing device and the second peripheral device using the second multipurpose port.


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