US 12,032,512 B2
Processor chip, dongle device, and operation method
Zhen-Ting Huang, Hsinchu (TW); Er-Zih Wong, Hsinchu (TW); Shih-Chiang Chu, Hsinchu (TW); and Chun-Hao Lin, Hsinchu (TW)
Assigned to Realtek Semiconductor Corporation, Hsinchu (TW)
Filed by Realtek Semiconductor Corporation, Hsinchu (TW)
Filed on Mar. 17, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/655,365.
Claims priority of application No. 110122239 (TW), filed on Jun. 17, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0405233 A1, Dec. 22, 2022
Int. Cl. G06F 15/78 (2006.01); G06F 9/4401 (2018.01); G06F 13/10 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 15/7892 (2013.01) [G06F 9/4411 (2013.01); G06F 13/10 (2013.01); G06F 15/7875 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A processor chip, comprising:
a logic circuit configured to couple an electronic device, wherein a configuration of the logic circuit corresponds to a plurality of candidate configurations,
wherein the configuration of the logic circuit is switched among the candidate configurations, and the electronic device associates with the processor chip to implement a function corresponding to the configuration of the logic circuit,
wherein when the configuration of the logic circuit is a first configuration and the electronic device executes a first driver program, the function is a first network-connection function, the first driver program executed by the electronic device corresponds to the function corresponding to the first configuration of the logic circuit,
wherein when the configuration of the logic circuit is a second configuration and the electronic device executes a second driver program, the second driver program executed by the electronic device corresponds to the function corresponding to the second configuration of the logic circuit, the function is a second network-connection function different from the first network-connection function.