Patent ID: 9253249
Filing Date: 2016-02-02
CPC Classification: G06F,H04L

Claim Text:
1. A method for accessing hardware resources in an electronic device having a browser-based operating system (OS), the browser-based OS comprising a browser and a client-side web application running in the browser, the method comprising: providing a local server on the electronic device having the browser-based OS, wherein the local server has a corresponding Universal Resource Locator (URL) and a dedicated network port; and upon receiving a service request from the client-side web application running in the browser-based OS of the electronic device, analyzing a service type of the service request and performing, by the local server, an operation to at least one hardware resource corresponding to the service type, wherein the service request is generated and directed to the local server according to the URL and the dedicated network port of the local server by the client-side web application running in the browser of the browser-based OS of the electronic device.