Electronic Device Configuration Tool and Corresponding Methods

A method of configuring an electronic device, the method comprising:

• detecting, with one or more processors of an electronic device configuration tool, electronic communication between the electronic device configuration tool and another electronic device;
• identifying, with an authentication device operable with the one or more processors, whether authentication data received by the authentication device belongs to an authorized user of the electronic device configuration tool;
• determining, by the one or more processors from the electronic communication, a device type of the another electronic device;
• selecting, by the one or more processors from an encrypted memory, one or more user preferred electronic device settings corresponding to the device type from a plurality of user preferred electronic device settings corresponding to a plurality of electronic device types;
• and
• delivering the one or more user preferred electronic device settings to the another electronic device only when the authentication data received by the authentication device belongs to an authorized user of the electronic device configuration tool.

An electronic device configuration tool, comprising:

• a communication interface;
• one or more processors electrically in communication with the communication interface;
• and
• an encrypted memory operable with the one or more processors and storing a plurality of user preferred electronic device settings associated with a plurality of electronic devices;
• the one or more processors:
• detecting the communication interface establishing electronic communication with another electronic device;
• identifying whether the another electronic device is configured with any user preferred electronic device settings of the plurality of user preferred electronic device settings;
• and
• where the one or more processors fail to identify the another electronic device being configured with the any user preferred electronic device settings of the plurality of user preferred electronic device settings, pushing one or more user preferred electronic device settings to the another electronic device through the communication interface;
• or
• where the one or more processors identify the another electronic device being configured with the any user preferred electronic device settings of the plurality of user preferred electronic device settings, pulling one or more changed user preferred electronic device settings from the another electronic device upon identifying the changes to the one or more user preferred electronic device settings and storing the one or more changed user preferred electronic device settings in the encrypted memory.