US 2016/0103771 A1 · VENDOR-SPECIFIC PERIPHERAL DEVICE CLASS IDENTIFIERS

Abstract

A peripheral device class identifier is generated for a class of peripheral devices, and is used to identify a setup record that indicates how to install or otherwise set up the class of peripheral devices on a computing device. The peripheral device class identifier is a combination of three components: a vendor identifier, a namespace identifier, and a namespace entry identifier. The vendor identifier is an identifier of the vendor of the class of peripheral devices. The namespace identifier is an identifier of different collections or groups of types of peripheral devices or types of functionality of peripheral devices. The namespace entry identifier is an identifier of a particular type of peripheral device (or particular functionality) of the different collections or groups of types of peripheral devices (or types of functionality of peripheral devices).

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A method comprising:

obtaining each of a vendor identifier that identifies a vendor of a class of peripheral devices, a namespace identifier that identifies a collection of types of peripheral devices, and a namespace entry identifier that identifies at least one of a particular type of peripheral devices or a particular functionality of peripheral devices;
generating a peripheral device class identifier based on the vendor identifier, the namespace identifier, and the namespace entry identifier;
and
associating the peripheral device class identifier with a setup record for a peripheral device in response to determining that the peripheral device has properties corresponding to the vendor identifier, the namespace identifier, and the namespace entry identifier.

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A computing device comprising:

a processing system comprising one or more processors;
and
one or more computer-readable storage media having stored thereon multiple instructions that, responsive to execution by the processing system, cause the processing system to perform acts comprising:
obtaining, for a peripheral device, each of a vendor identifier that identifies a vendor of a class of peripheral devices that includes the peripheral device, a namespace identifier that identifies a collection of types of peripheral devices that includes a type of the peripheral device, and a namespace entry identifier that identifies at least one of a particular type of peripheral devices that is a particular type of the peripheral device or a particular functionality of peripheral devices that is a particular functionality of the peripheral device;
generating, for the peripheral device, a peripheral device class identifier based on the vendor identifier, the namespace identifier, and the namespace entry identifier;
using the peripheral device class identifier to identify a setup record for the peripheral device;
and
using the setup record to set up the peripheral device for use on the computing device.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

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