Patent ID: 11868279
Assignee: LIQID INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 11:
12. A method, comprising:
providing expansion card slots within a chassis;
providing status lights for each slot configured to provide indications of operational status for peripheral cards inserted into associated expansion card slots;
coupling the expansion card slots via communication switch circuitry;
providing power control circuitry configured to establish hot swap capability for slot power and auxiliary power of the expansion card slots, such that a selected expansion card slot can have the slot power and the auxiliary power concurrently disabled before removal of an inserted expansion card while remaining ones of the expansion card slots have the slot power and the auxiliary power enabled; and
wherein the slot power is provided through the expansion card slots and the auxiliary power is provided at different connections than the slot power and having different voltage levels than the slot power.