Patent ID: 9749038
Date: 2017-08-29
CPC Classifications: G06F,H04B,H04M

Claim:
1. A method operable at a docking host for docking with a dockee, the method comprising: generating a peripheral list by listing at least wireline connected peripherals that are currently connected by wireline to the docking host, and wirelessly paired peripherals that are currently paired with the docking host; determining one or more supported docking profiles capable of being supported by the peripheral list, by comparing the peripheral list with a set of stored docking profiles, each docking profile in the set of stored docking profiles comprising a minimum set of peripherals corresponding to a pre-configured use case; transmitting an indication of the one or more supported docking profiles to the dockee; and docking with the dockee, the dockee to utilize a set of one or more of the peripherals communicatively coupled to the docking host and corresponding to one of the supported docking profiles.