Patent ID: 9588775
Date: 2017-03-07
CPC Classifications: G06F

Claim:
1. A method of configuring first and second electronic devices, the first device being a master and the second device a slave, said second device comprising mobile telephone functionality and being configured to be able to perform a plurality of different selectable predefined functions, each selectable predefined function being associated with an appropriate device driver which relates to a particular USB device class and a particular USB device descriptor, the method comprising: attaching the first and second devices to one another using the bottom layer of the USB communication system; receiving, at said second device, preference information from a user relating to one of said plurality of functions of said second device to enable selection of one of the plurality of predefined functions, wherein the preference information is provided by the user using a menu of the second device, the menu providing the plurality of predefined functions for selection, and providing USB device descriptor information from the second device, relating to said one selected function, using the middle layer of the USB communication system, for assigning an appropriate device driver to allow said first device, with an appropriately assigned device driver, to use said one selected function using the third layer of the USB communication system, the method thereby allowing for repeatable connection of the second device to the first device to allow for use of respective different functionality of the second device according to user provided preference information.