Patent ID: 7127623

Claim:
A system for supplying power to a previously unknown battery-powered device based on determining a power requirement thereof, comprising: interconnecting means for electrical coupling a battery, the battery-powered device, and a configurable power supply into a user-configured circuit for providing the battery independent and simultaneous access to both said device and said power supply, comprising: identifying means for distinguishing a specific interconnecting circuit element by its predetermined unique resistive value; acquiring means for detecting resistive values available to a processor for executing program instructions embodied on a computer-readable medium; means for providing a memorized sequence of anticipated user-manipulations of each circuit element based on its corresponding resistive value in a look-up table; instructing means for directing the user to manipulate at least one of one or more circuit elements according to the sequence; analyzing means for the processor first adjusting in a work space the acquired resistive value by an allowable error factor, then for validating that the user manipulation is either valid or invalid by comparing the adjusted resistive value to values in the look-up table; determining means for assigning resistive values to variables in the look-up table; prompting means for indicating a valid or invalid manipulation to the user; said acquiring, analyzing, determining, and prompting means continuing until the manipulation of elements result in the user-configured circuit; further acquiring means for the processor capturing a battery-output value upon which at least one computation is performed, based on predetermined formulas, resulting in determining the power requirement of the previously unknown device; configuring means for varying a power-output signal of the configurable power supply, the signal based on the determined power requirement of the now-known device; the signal will be delivered from the power supply to the device along the user-configured circuit, and a means for controlling the direction of signal flow in the circuit prevents the signal from flowing to the battery; whereby power is supplied to said previously unknown battery-powered device.