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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 12, 2018
Filed:
Mar. 25, 2015
Lenovo Enterprise Solutions (Singapore) Pte. Ltd., Singapore, SG;
Shareef F. Alshinnawi, Apex, NC (US);
Gary D. Cudak, Wake Forest, NC (US);
Edward S. Suffern, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
J. Mark Weber, Wake Forest, NC (US);
Lenovo Enterprise Solutions (Singapore) Pte. Ltd., Singapore, SG;
Abstract
Automatically orienting hardware ports in a computing device, including: determining a location of a first hardware port configured to receive a first cable connector of a cable; determining a location of a second hardware port configured to receive a second cable connector of the cable; determining, in dependence upon the location of the first hardware port and the location of the second hardware port, orientation information for at least one of the hardware ports; and transmitting an instruction to position at least one of the hardware ports in accordance with the orientation information.