Method and system for configuring settings for a communications client utilizing host device drivers
AssigneeResearch In Motion Limited
InventorsHaining Zhang, Maxime Matton
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Abstract
A system and method for configuring a client on a host device using a configuration application on a configuring device, the system comprising: a link between the configuring device and the host device; host drivers for communicating between the host device and the configuring device over the link; and an interface between the host drivers and the configuration application, wherein said interface allows said configuration application to be independent of the host drivers while allowing the configuration application to configure the client.
Claims15
A system for configuring a client on a host device using a configuration application on a configuring device, the system comprising:
- a. a link between the configuring device and the host device;
- b. host drivers for communicating between the host device and the configuring device over the link;
- and
- c. an interface between the host drivers and the configuration application,
- wherein said interface allows said configuration application to be independent of the host drivers while allowing the configuration application to configure the client.
A method for configuring a client on a host device from a configuration application on a configuring device, the host device being linked to the configuration device, the method comprising the steps of:
- a. adding a set of host drivers to the configuration device specific for the host device and link;
- and
- b. providing an interface between the configuration application and the set of host drivers, the interface being adapted to communicate with the host drivers,
- wherein the configuration application can communicate with the client without changing the configuration application for the host device or set of host drivers.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.