Remote USB device usage system
AssigneeSharp Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorKatsuyoshi Kondo
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Abstract
In one embodiment of a remote USB device usage system, when there is a request to connect to a remote USB device from any one of a plurality of applications, a check is performed of whether or not another application is using the remote USB device. When no application is using the remote USB device, connection to the remote USB device is performed. When there is a request to disconnect from a remote USB device from any one of a plurality of applications, a check is performed of whether or not another application is using the remote USB device, if no application is using the remote USB device, disconnection from the remote USB device is performed.
Claims4
A remote USB device usage system in which a client that has been connected to a network to which a server is connected can use a remote USB device that is connected to the server;
- the client having a remote USB device connection processing unit that is capable of connecting/disconnecting the remote USB device;
- the remote USB device connection processing unit,
- when a request to connect to the remote USB device is made from any one of a plurality of applications provided by the client, performing a check of whether or not an application other than the application that made the connection request is already using the remote USB device, and when no application is using the remote USB device, connecting to the remote USB device;
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- when a request to disconnect the remote USB device is made from any one of the plurality of applications, performing a check of whether or not an application other than the application that made the disconnection request is still using the remote USB device, and when no application is using the remote USB device, disconnecting from the remote USB device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.