Patent ID: 7096155

Claim:
An information handling system having at least one embedded controller with at least one activity-status indicator, said system comprising: at least one embedded controller in an information handling system, said embedded controller having at least one activity-status indicator, wherein the at least one activity-status indicator represents activity and status of said at least one embedded controller; an interface circuit having an input coupled to the at least one activity-status indicator, whereby the activity and status of said at least one embedded controller is monitored by said information handling system by reading said interface circuit; and at least one edge-triggered latch, said at least one edge-triggered latch having an input coupled to the at least one activity-status indicator, an output coupled to another input of said interface circuit and a clear input coupled to an output of a timer circuit, wherein a flash pattern from said at least one activity-status indicator is captured and stored in the at least one edge-triggered latch and represented on the output thereof, whereby the flash pattern from said at least one activity-status indicator is monitored by said information handling system by reading said interface circuit, and said at least one edge-triggered latch is cleared at predetermined time intervals by said timer circuit, wherein the predetermined time intervals differentiate between different flash patterns.