Unidirectional and bidirectional communication between a host device and a peripheral device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9053243-B2
Application number	US-201314047959-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 7, 2013
Priority date	Oct 10, 2012
Publication date	Jun 9, 2015
Grant date	Jun 9, 2015

Abstract

A dock connects to a user's host device and provides video output to a display. The host device is a computing device that executes one or more applications. One or more controllers are peripheral devices that can be used to control applications on the host device. A service module provides support for additional communication profiles that are more versatile than the communication profiles supported by the operating system on the host device. The service module establishes a unidirectional connection between the host device and the peripheral devices as well as a bidirectional connection. A control scheme identifying an operating mode associated with a peripheral device is retrieved from a server. The peripheral device is configured to send data to the host device in a format recognizable by one or more applications based on the operating scheme.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method of communication between a host device and a peripheral device, the method comprising:
establishing a first connection between the host device and the peripheral device, the first connection allowing unidirectional transfer of data from the peripheral device to the host device;
establishing a second connection between the host device and the peripheral device, the second connection allowing bidirectional transfer of data between the peripheral dev…

Assignees

• Google Inc

Inventors

• Townsend Karl Alun

Classifications

• G06F13/385 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F2213/3854

  Physics · mapped topic

• A63F13/42

  Human Necessities · mapped topic

• A63F13/23

  Human Necessities · mapped topic

• G06F2213/3812

  Physics · mapped topic