Patent ID: 8535086

Claim:
An electronic device comprising: a housing containing at least: a bus bridge circuit; a divided multi-connector element differential bus connector, operatively coupled to the bus bridge circuit, comprised of a single connector housing and having disposed therein: a divided electrical contact configuration comprised of a first group of electrical contacts divided from an adjacent second group of electrical contacts, the first group of electrical contacts comprising a row of lower contacts and upper contacts, wherein the lower contacts are through hole pins with a pattern of different length pins located through holes in at least one circuit substrate and the upper contacts are surface mount pins mounting on a surface of the at least one circuit substrate; and the second group of electrical contacts having an identical and mirrored configuration as the first group of contacts comprising an identical and mirrored corresponding row of lower contacts and upper contacts, wherein the lower contacts are through hole pins with a pattern of different length pins located through holes in at least one circuit substrate and the upper contacts are surface mount pins mounting on a surface of the at least one circuit substrate; an backplane, operatively coupled to the bus bridge circuit, comprising a plurality of internal card ports each configured to receive a plug in card.