Patent ID: 11916331
Assignee: HEWLETT PACKARD ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT LP
Field: Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 0:
1. A retaining module comprising:
a housing;
a plurality of passive physical ports that are not electrically connected to any circuitry in the retaining module; and
a plurality of first visual identifiers associated, respectively, with the plurality of passive physical ports such that each of the first visual identifiers uniquely identifies the associated passive physical port,
wherein the plurality of passive physical ports are configured to receive respective connector terminals attached to respective data signal transmission cables,
wherein the plurality of passive physical ports are associated respectively with a plurality of active physical ports on the electronic device such that each passive physical port has a shape corresponding to a shape of the associated active physical port and a position of each passive physical port relative to the other passive physical ports corresponds to a position of the associated active physical port relative to the other active physical ports,
wherein, for each of the passive physical ports, the first visual identifier associated with the respective passive physical port is the same as a second visual identifier on the electronic device which uniquely identifies the active physical port associated with the respective passive physical port.