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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 26, 2022
Filed:
Aug. 15, 2019
Applicant:
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Inventor:
Deric Wayne Waters, Dallas, TX (US);
Assignee:
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED, Dallas, TX (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/00 (2006.01); G06F 1/26 (2006.01); G06F 13/42 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/266 (2013.01); G06F 13/4282 (2013.01); Y02D 10/00 (2018.01);
Abstract
A circuit includes a controller to communicate with a sink device and communicate a plurality of power sources that are available to the sink device. A plurality of switch devices switch power from one of the plurality of power sources to the sink device in response to a control signal from the controller. A policy engine in the controller defines policies for the operation of the controller during different communications phases between the controller and the sink device.