Patent ID: 11876902
Assignee: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 11:
12. A computing device comprising:
a port controller to route custom communications to one or more modules over an operable connection between the computing device and the one or more modules via one or more ports, where the custom communications are routed to the one or more modules over a side-band channel of the operable connection between the computing device and the one or more modules; and
an application, using the custom communications, to:
authenticate the one or more modules via a verification module;
interrogate the one or more modules to determine parameters associated with each of the one or more modules; and
update a human-readable interface to include the parameters associated with each of the one or more modules.