Patent ID: 9749425
Date: 2017-08-29
CPC Classifications: G06F,H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. An apparatus comprising a memory and a processor, the processor configured to cause a first media-agnostic Universal Serial Bus (USB) element of a media-agnostic USB Protocol Adaptation Layer (PAL) to: initiate an implicit session tear down of a media-agnostic USB session between the first media-agnostic USB element and a second media-agnostic USB element, based on a detected loss of connectivity between the first media-agnostic USB element and the second media-agnostic USB element; during the implicit session tear down, emulate a port status change event equivalent to unplugging a wired USB device from a root port; at the first media-agnostic USB element, locally handle actions resulting from the port status change event, and clear resources allocated to the media-agnostic USB session.