Patent ID: 7249212

Claim:
A system comprising: a wireless peripheral device; and a computer system composed of: a docking station; a connection detector in the docking station that detects when the wireless peripheral device is docked at the docking station; an IDentification Signal Receiver (IDSR); and a Peripheral Device Locking Logic (PDLL), wherein the PDLL includes logic to: receive from the IDSR a first list of all peripheral devices within range of the IDSR, stop a transmission of an IDentification (ID) signal from the docked peripheral device, and subsequently receive from the IDSR a second list of peripheral devices within range of the IDSR, wherein the second list of peripheral devices does not contain the ID signal from the docked peripheral device, wherein the PDLL determines the ID of the docked peripheral by contrasting the first and second lists, and wherein the wireless peripheral device is a docked peripheral device that is docked in the docking station, and wherein the PDLL initializes communication only with the docked peripheral device.