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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 10, 2021
Filed:
Nov. 02, 2018
Dell Products L.p., Round Rock, TX (US);
Michael Joseph Stumpf, Cedar Park, TX (US);
Robert G. Bassman, The Hills, TX (US);
Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US);
Abstract
An activity-light-based parameter reporting system includes a storage device that is coupled to a storage device activity light. The storage device includes a parameter reporting engine that monitors a parameter associated with the storage device, and determines whether a rate of change of the parameter has exceeded a reporting rate of change. In response to determining that the rate of change of the parameter has exceeded the reporting rate of change, the parameter reporting engine drives the storage device activity light via at least one activity light parameter reporting signal that is configured to report the parameter. A controller monitors the driving of the storage device activity light by the parameter reporting engine, and identifies a parameter value of the parameter via the at least one activity light parameter reporting signal used by the parameter reporting engine to drive the storage device activity light.