Managing peripherals in a workspace environment
AssigneeDell Products L.P.
InventorsGokul Thiruchengode Vajravel, Srinivasa Ragavan Rajagopalan, Vivek Viswanathan Iyer
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Abstract
Peripherals can be managed in a workspace environment. Peripherals can be associated with hoteling cubes to enable the inclusion of the peripherals in workspaces at the hoteling cubes to be managed. Users can be enabled to request the inclusion of additional peripherals in workspaces at the hoteling cubes. Users can also be enabled to include their own peripherals in workspaces at the hoteling cubes.
Claims17
A method for managing peripherals in a workspace environment, the method comprising:
- in conjunction with a user booking a hoteling cube, identifying one or more peripherals that are associated with the hoteling cube;
- caching peripheral information for the one or more peripherals on a client computing device;
- in conjunction with determining that the client computing device is establishing a workspace at the hoteling cube, using the peripheral information to allow the one or more peripherals to be included in the workspace while preventing one or more other peripherals from being included in the workspace;
- detecting that the user has connected a user peripheral to the client computing device;
- using, on the client computing device, the peripheral information to determine that the user peripheral should be prevented from being included in the workspace;
- notifying a peripheral controller indicating that the user peripheral has been connected to the client computing device;
- in response to the peripheral controller indicating that the user peripheral is approved to be included in the workspace, allowing the user peripheral to be included in the workspace.
One or more non-transitory computer storage media storing computer executable instructions which when executed implement a method for managing peripherals in a workspace environment, the method comprising:
- receiving, from a client computing device, a request to include a first peripheral in a workspace that the client computing device has established or will establish at a first hoteling cube;
- determining that the first peripheral is associated with a second hoteling cube;
- notifying an agent on the client computing device that the first peripheral is available at the second hoteling cube;
- notifying a user of the client computing device that the first peripheral is available at the second hoteling cube;
- providing peripheral information to a filter driver on the client computing device;
- using, by the filter driver, the peripheral information to allow the first peripheral to be included in the workspace at the first hoteling cube;
- detecting that the user has connected a user peripheral to the client computing device;
- using, on the client computing device, the peripheral information to determine that user peripheral should be prevented from being included in the workspace;
- notifying a peripheral controller that the user peripheral has been connected to the client computing device;
- and
- in response to the peripheral controller indicating that the user peripheral is approved to be included in the workspace, allowing the user peripheral to be included in the workspace.
A method for managing peripherals in a workspace environment, the method comprising:
- retrieving, by an agent executing on a client computing device, peripheral information for one or more peripherals that are associated with a hoteling cube at which a user of the client computing device has established or will establish a workspace;
- sharing, by the agent, the peripheral information with a filter driver on the client computing device;
- when the user has connected the one or more peripherals to the client computing device at the hoteling cube, using, by the filter driver, the peripheral information to determine that the one or more peripherals should be included in the workspace;
- detecting that the user has connected a user peripheral to the client computing device;
- using, on the client computing device, the peripheral information to determine that the user peripheral should be prevented from being included in the workspace;
- notifying a peripheral controller that the user peripheral has been connected to the client computing device;
- and
- in response to the peripheral controller indicating that the user peripheral is approved to be included in the workspace, allowing the user peripheral to be included in the workspace.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.