Systems, methods, and media for providing visual indication...

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2007-06-26

2007-06-26

Gilman, Alexander (Department: 2833)

Electrical connectors

With indicating or identifying provision

Connection indicating provision

Reexamination Certificate

active

11312896

ABSTRACT:
Systems, methods, and media for providing visual indication of a blade configuration are disclosed. Embodiments may include a visual blade configuration system with a chassis and a plurality of hot pluggable blades, where each blade is adapted to be physically connected to one or more other blades, where the physically connected blades each form a visual indication device (VID) assembly. Embodiments may also include where each blade has one or more visual indication devices (VIDs) each having a plurality of states, where each of the visual indication devices changes its state to provide a visual indication of the VID assembly associated with its attached blade. The plurality of states may include different colors, alphanumeric characters, images, symbols, patterns, number of active elements, actions, animations, etc. In a further embodiment, each visual indication device may potentially change its state in response to detection of addition or removal of a blade.

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