Patent ID: 9483420
Filing Date: 2016-11-01
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. A method, comprising: detecting, on an operating system (OS) processing on a Self-Service Terminal (SST), a presence of a newly coupled device to the SST; notifying, by the OS, an application of the presence; establishing, by the OS, a connection between the application and the device in response to a connection command received from the application; providing, by the OS, to the application an OS communication port Application Programming Interface (API) for communication with the device during the connection, wherein the application uses the connection to the device to act as a soft device driver for the device and issues device-specific commands to the device, the device-specific commands attached or embedded in an OS communication port API command, wherein the application bypasses the OS in issuing the device-specific commands to the device and the device-specific commands are unrecognized by OS; and ignoring, by the OS, the presence when the application is not actively processing on the SST.