Patent ID: 9544048
Date: 2017-01-10
CPC Classifications: G06F,H04B,H04M

Claim:
1. A method operable at a docking host for docking with a dockee, the method comprising: establishing a communication link with the dockee; discovering a persistent docking environment utilizing the communication link, the persistent docking environment comprising a prior docking environment established during prior communication with the dockee, wherein the discovering of the persistent docking environment comprises selecting, based on a unique persistent docking identifier associated with the dockee and one from among the plurality of available persistent docking environments, the one from among a plurality of available persistent docking environments each associated with a different group of available peripheral devices and wherein each one of a plurality of different persistent docking environment identifiers is associated with a particular dockee and a particular docking environment; and establishing a persistent docking session utilizing the selected persistent docking environment.