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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 26, 2017
Filed:
Apr. 21, 2015
Via Technologies, Inc., New Taipei, TW;
Chin-Sung Hsu, New Taipei, TW;
Terrance Shiyang Shih, Milpitas, CA (US);
Li-Feng Pan, New Taipei, TW;
VIA TECHNOLOGIES, INC., New Taipei, TW;
Abstract
A Universal Serial Bus (USB) dock is provided. The USB dock includes: a plurality of downstream ports; and a upstream port, connecting the USB dock to a portable device, wherein the upstream port includes an On-the-go (OTG) ID pin and a differential pair; and a microcontroller, configured to detect operating states of the portable device, wherein when it is detected that the portable device is in a USB OTG host mode and has entered a suspend state, the microcontroller controls the portable device to switch from the USB OTG host mode to a USB device mode by toggling a state of the USB OTG ID pin, thereby charging the portable device via the upstream port.