Patent ID: 8255804

Claim:
A method for managing utilization of a user interface device with one or more computing systems, the method comprising: in the user interface device: establishing a wireless communication link with a computing system; determining that at least a portion of the user interface device may be used with the computing system as an interface between a user and the computing system, said determining based on a list of authorized devices maintained by the user interface device; communicating a signal indicating that at least a portion of the user interface device may be used with the computing system; receiving a request to allocate said at least said portion of the user interface device for use with the computing system based on the communicated signal; and allocating the requested said at least said portion of the user interface device for use with the computing system, wherein the user interface device is one or more of: a mouse, a keyboard, a scanner, a printer, a microphone, a speaker, a camera, and/or a video display.