Patent ID: 9250922
Filing Date: 2016-02-02
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. A method for booting a user equipment, comprising: performing a device boot of the user equipment; determining whether profiles for peripherals associated with the user equipment are available at the user equipment; upon determining that a profile for one of the peripherals is not available at the user equipment but is available at a location external to the user equipment, the location being managed by a manufacturer associated with the one of the peripherals, retrieving the profile for the one of the peripherals from the location; configuring the peripherals and associated drivers for the user equipment by at least updating the profile for the one of the peripherals based on the retrieved profile; and booting a high-level operating system (HLOS), wherein the configuring makes information related to at least one driver associated with each of the peripherals available to the HLOS, and the configuring occurs before the booting of the HLOS.