公开(公告)号：US20150242357A1

公开(公告)日：2015-08-27

申请号：US14190937

申请日：2014-02-26

Applicant: AMERICAN MEGATRENDS, INC.

Inventor： JAY PANCHOLI ,  KAYALVIZHI DHANDAPANI ,  CLAS GERHARD SIVERTSEN

IPC: G06F13/42 ,  G06F11/22 ,  G06F11/30 ,  G06F12/02 ,  G06F13/38

CPC classification number: G06F13/426 ,  G06F11/2247 ,  G06F11/3051 ,  G06F12/0238 ,  G06F13/102 ,  G06F13/385 ,  G06F2213/0042

Abstract: Certain aspects relate to monitoring and managing storage drives installed on a backplane and performing backplane controller firmware update through a universal serial bus (USB) interface. When the backplane controller is connected to a host computer via the USB interface, the backplane controller sends USB descriptors to the host computer through the USB interface such that the host computer recognizes the backplane controller as a specific human interface device (HID) device based on the USB descriptors. Thus, the backplane controller and the host computer may transmit backplane drive management messages, such as the result to monitor and manage the storage drives, or the control commands and control data to monitor and manage the storage drives and to update the firmware of the backplane controller, as USB HID reports in a predefined format based on the USB descriptors.

Abstract translation: 某些方面涉及监控和管理安装在背板上的存储驱动器，并通过通用串行总线（USB）接口执行背板控制器固件更新。 当底板控制器通过USB接口连接到主机时，背板控制器通过USB接口将USB描述符发送到主计算机，以便主机将基板控制器识别为基于以下功能的特定人机接口设备（HID）设备 USB描述符。 因此，背板控制器和主计算机可以传送背板驱动管理消息，例如监视和管理存储驱动器的结果，或控制命令和控制数据，以监视和管理存储驱动器并更新背板的固件 控制器，因为USB HID基于USB描述符以预定义的格式报告。