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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 07, 2025
Filed:
Jan. 30, 2023
Information handling system peripheral device health state tracking for enhanced reuse and recycling
Dell Products L.p., Round Rock, TX (US);
John Trevor Morrison, Round Rock, TX (US);
Jace W. Files, Round Rock, TX (US);
Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US);
Abstract
A peripheral device having one or more input devices tracks total inputs at the input devices locally and reports the total inputs to an information handling system to track health of the peripheral for reuse. Input device actuations and/or values are queued in batches of sufficient size so that communication to non-transitory memory and to the information handling system hides the values of the inputs made by an end user. The peripheral devices can include peripheral keyboards that track key inputs, peripheral mouse devices that track button presses and peripheral stylus devices that track battery charges, button presses and writing tip use.