Patent ID: 11914537
Assignee: APPLE INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 2:
3. The method of claim 2, wherein comparing the accessory attribute information against the first information about the first hub device and the second information about the second hub device comprises:
generating a first metric for the accessory potentially connecting to the first hub device based at least in part on the accessory attribute information and the set of capabilities of the first hub device;
multiplying the first metric times the number of available connection slots of the first hub device to generate a first connection score;
generating a second metric for the accessory potentially connecting to the second hub device based at least in part on the accessory attribute information and the set of capabilities of the second hub device; and
multiplying the second metric times the number of available connection slots of the second hub device to generate a second connection score.