Patent ID: 8738834

Claim:
A method of providing communication between a mobile device and a host device, comprising: receiving, at the mobile device, preference information indicating the user-selection of one particular function from a plurality of different user-selectable predefined functions of the mobile device, wherein each of the respective different functions of the mobile device is: useable by a host device only when the host device is in a communication configuration with that given respective function of the mobile device; and associated with respective corresponding driver information that is able to allow a communication configuration to be established between the host device and that respectively associated function of the mobile device; providing the host device with the preference information indicating the particular selected function of the mobile device so as to cause the host device to assign corresponding driver information associated with that particular selected function, irrespective of whether any other function of the plurality of different user-selectable predefined functions of the mobile device has previously been interfaced with the host device; and establishing the communication configuration between the host device and that particular selected function of the mobile device via the assigned driver information to thereby interface the host device with the particular selected function of the mobile device through the communication configuration so as to allow the host device to be able to use the particular selected function of the mobile device.