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

Claim 10:
11. A system comprising:
a chassis;
an electronic device arranged within the chassis, wherein the electronic device comprises a set of active physical ports configured to removably receive a set of respectively corresponding connector terminals attached to associated signal transmission cables and communicably connect the signal transmission cables to the electronic device; and
a retaining module mountable onto the chassis, the retaining module comprising:
a housing;
a set of passive physical ports that are not electrically connected to any circuitry in the retaining module and are configured to receive the set of respectively corresponding connector terminals of the signal transmission cables; and
a set of first visual identifiers associated, respectively, with the passive physical ports such that each of the first visual identifiers uniquely identifies the associated passive physical port; and

a set of second visual identifiers associated, respectively, with the active physical ports such that each of the second visual identifiers uniquely identifies the associated active physical port,
wherein the passive physical ports are associated respectively with the active physical ports 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 the second visual identifier associated with the active physical port associated with the respective passive physical port.