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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 04, 2025
Filed:
Apr. 05, 2022
Zpe Systems, Inc., Fremont, CA (US);
Arnaldo Zimmermann, Dublin, CA (US);
Livio Ceci, Fremont, CA (US);
ZPE SYSTEMS, INC., Singapore, SG;
Abstract
A control system for individually controlling one or more universal serial bus (USB) ports. The control system may include at least one USB interface that provides at least one USB port, at least one power control unit in communication with the at least one USB interface, and one or more non-transitory computer-readable media for storing computer-readable program code and a configuration dataset. The control system may further include a processor device in communication with the one or more non-transitory computer-readable media, the at least one power control unit and the at least one USB interface. The processor device may be operative with the computer-readable program code to retrieve configuration data from the configuration dataset and control power supply to the at least one USB port in accordance with the configuration data by enabling or disabling the at least one power control unit.