Patent ID: 9497787
Filing Date: 2016-11-15
CPC Classification: G06F,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method, comprising: allocating, by a wireless docking center device, at least one peripheral function associated with a peripheral device, from a plurality of available peripheral functions associated with one or more peripheral devices, to a first wireless dockee device; receiving, by the wireless docking center device, a request message for available peripheral functions from a second wireless dockee device; providing, by the wireless docking center device to the second wireless dockee device, a list of available peripheral functions associated with one or more peripheral devices, excluding the at least one peripheral function allocated to the first wireless dockee device; receiving, by the wireless docking center device, a selection request from the second wireless dockee device to select at least one of the available peripheral functions associated with one or more peripheral devices, excluding the at least one peripheral function allocated to the first wireless dockee device; allocating, by the wireless docking center device, the requested at least one of the available peripheral functions associated with one or more peripheral devices, to the second wireless dockee device; and transmitting, by the wireless docking center device, a change notification to the first wireless dockee device indicating that the requested at least one of the available peripheral functions associated with one or more peripheral devices, allocated to the second wireless dockee device is no longer available in response to the allocation of said requested at least one peripheral function to the second wireless dockee device.