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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 31, 2022
Filed:
Sep. 30, 2017
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Dmitriy Berchanskiy, Roseville, CA (US);
Venkataramani Gopalakrishnan, Folsom, CA (US);
Jose A. Meza Arellano, Diamond Springs, CA (US);
James E. Akiyama, Tigard, OR (US);
Kevin Southern, Beaverton, OR (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
Aspects of the embodiments are directed to a ThunderBolt (TBT) input/output (I/O) controller apparatus. The TBT I/O controller apparatus can include an output port to receive a connection to a display device; a multiplexer coupled to the output port; a first input port coupled to the multiplexer; a second input port coupled to the multiplexer; a memory element to store graphics preference data; and TBT firmware (FW). The TBT FW can detect a connected device at the input port; determine a graphics processor for the connected device based on the graphics preference data; and logically connect the connected device to one of the first input port or the second input port through the multiplexer based on the determined graphics processor.