Patent ID: 11966346
Assignee: BARCO N.V.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 10:
11. A method for connecting a processing device to a functional device connected to or in a base unit of a communications network, the base unit having a transmitter and a first display device, the processing device having a memory, a second display device and an operating system, a third party software for a Unified Communication call, and a driver and a client software wherein, the client software, when executed by a processor on the processing device:
interacts directly with the base unit over a wireless connection and provides any simulations or translations, as required, to allow interaction between the first display device and the processing device, wherein the base unit transmits data over the wireless connection to the processing device,
the client software and a driver, when executed on the processing device, present the functional device to the operating system of the processing device as a virtual functional device,
third party software for a Unified Communication call is presented with the virtual functional device which it then uses for the call,
wherein the processing device hosts the Unified Communication call between two or more processing devices,
wherein the client software is further configured to provide data transformations based on a type of functional data from the at least one functional device to the processing device.