Method and apparatus of providing thin client functionality

• US 10,447,821 B1
• Filed: 03/19/2018
• Issued: 10/15/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 03/12/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Open Invention Network LLC
• Original Assignee: Open Invention Network LLC
• Inventors: Wieland, Martin
• Primary Examiner(s): Hussain, Tauqir
• Application Number:
  US15/925,105
• Time in Patent Office: 575 Days
• Field of Search: 709203
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 13/102 where the programme performs an interfacing function, e.g. device driver G06F13/105 takes precedence; scheduling within device drivers G06F9/52; contention policies within device drivers G06F9/4881
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0091 arrangements specific to receivers, e.g. format detection detection of data rate H04L25/0262; detection of coding rate H04L1/0046
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/01 Protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46

Abstract

An apparatus and method of adding thin client functionality are disclosed. One example method provides generating a call function directed to an electronic device and at least one peripheral device. The method also includes redirecting the call function to an auxiliary device, extracting payload data from information sent to the at least one peripheral device, discarding values outside a previously negotiated range from the extracted payload data, performing at least one of incrementing and decrementing the remaining values of the payload data to create a data subset, and redirecting the data subset to at least one other peripheral device resulting in output information being sent to the at least one other peripheral device.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

generating a call function directed to an electronic device and at least one peripheral device;

extracting payload data from information sent to the at least one peripheral device by stripping protocol header information and protocol trailer information;

discarding values outside a previously negotiated range from the extracted payload data;

performing at least one of incrementing and decrementing remaining values of the payload data to create a data subset; and

redirecting the data subset to at least one other peripheral device resulting in output information being sent to the at least one other peripheral device.

2. The method of claim 1, comprising:

redirecting the call function to an auxiliary device.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the redirecting the call function to an auxiliary device includes preserving the original call function.

4. The method of claim 1, comprising:

processing information sent to the electronic device via at least two filters each of which comprises at least one of a high-pass filter, a low-pass filter and a band-pass filter.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the at least two filters are inverses of each other.

6. The method of claim 4, wherein the information sent to the electronic device is processed by at least one of the at least two filters before it is passed to the electronic device.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the electronic device adds thin client functionality that provides a communication medium with peripheral devices which include at least one of a keyboard, mouse, speaker, modem, and display.

8. An electronic device, comprising:

a processor configured to;

generate a call function directed to an electronic device and at least one peripheral device;

extract payload data from information sent to the at least one peripheral device by a strip of protocol header information and protocol trailer information;

discard values outside a previously negotiated range from the extracted payload data;

perform at least one of increment and decrement values that remain of the payload data to create a data subset; and

a transmitter configured to redirect the data subset to at least one other peripheral device that results in output information being sent to the at least one other peripheral device.

9. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein the processor is configured to:

redirect the call function to an auxiliary device.

10. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein the redirect of the call function to an auxiliary device includes a preservation of the original call function.

11. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein the processor is configured to:

process received information via at least two filters each of which comprises at least one of a high-pass filter, a low-pass filter and a band-pass filter.

12. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the at least two filters are inverses of each other.

13. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the information sent to the electronic device is processed by at least one of the at least two filters before it is passed to the electronic device.

14. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein the electronic device adds thin client functionality that provides a communication medium with peripheral devices which include at least one of a keyboard, mouse, speaker, modem, and display.

15. A non-transitory computer storage medium configured to store a computer program that when executed causes a processor to perform:

generating a call function directed to an electronic device and at least one peripheral device;

extracting payload data from information sent to the at least one peripheral device by stripping protocol header information and protocol trailer information;

discarding values outside a previously negotiated range from the extracted payload data;

performing at least one of incrementing and decrementing remaining values of the payload data to create a data subset; and

redirecting the data subset to at least one other peripheral device resulting in output information being sent to the at least one other peripheral device.

16. The non-transitory computer storage medium of claim 15,

wherein the computer program when executed causes the processor to perform:

redirecting the call function to an auxiliary device.

17. The non-transitory computer storage medium of claim 15, wherein the redirecting the call function to an auxiliary device includes preserving the original call function.

18. The non-transitory computer storage medium of claim 15, wherein the computer program when executed causes the processor to perform:

processing information sent to the electronic device via at least two filters each of which comprises at least one of a high-pass filter, a low-pass filter and a band-pass filter.

19. The non-transitory computer storage medium of claim 18, wherein the at least two filters are inverses of each other.

20. The non-transitory computer storage medium of claim 18, wherein the information sent to the electronic device is processed by at least one of the at least two filters before it is passed to the electronic device.