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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 28, 2021
Filed:
Sep. 28, 2018
Microchip Technology Incorporated, Chandler, AZ (US);
Brigham Steele, San Tan Valley, AZ (US);
Andrew Rogers, Tempe, AZ (US);
Shannon Cash, Cedar Park, TX (US);
Matthew Kalibat, Austin, TX (US);
MICROCHIP TECHNOLOGY INCORPORATED, Chandler, AZ (US);
Abstract
A Universal Serial Bus (USB) dock includes ports, a processor, and instructions to cause the processor, below a level of an operating system running applications and accessing the USB dock, identify a first port of the plurality of ports as a priority port. The processor may be further caused to detect a connection to the dock. The processor may be further caused to determine whether a candidate port to which the connection is made is the priority port. The processor may be further caused to, based on a determination that the candidate port is the priority port, recover power from other ports and advertise power capabilities of the priority port to a USB element connecting to the dock.