Patent ID: 9703729
Date: 2017-07-11
CPC Classifications: G06F

Claim:
1. A method of identifying an orientation of a multimedia link connected to a sink device, the method comprising: detecting a multimedia link connection at the sink device, the sink device including a plurality of pins to interface with a plurality of pins of the multimedia link, the plurality of pins of the sink device comprising a first control bus pin and a second control bus pin; monitoring a first change in value of high to low of the first control bus pin and a second change in value of high to low of the second control bus pin, the second change in value occurring at a different time than the first change in value; determining which of the first change in value and the second change in value occurs first; responsive to the determining which of the first change in value and the second change in value occurs first, identifying the orientation of the multimedia link connected to the sink device; and transmitting the identified orientation of the multimedia link connected to the sink device to a source device.