METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONNECTION MANAGEMENT AND RESOURCE SHARING

• US 20120005376A1
• Filed: 12/22/2010
• Published: 01/05/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 12/30/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Psion PLC (Motorola Solutions, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Psion Teklogix (Motorola Solutions, Inc.)
• Inventors: Meghdies Vardeh, Eil Beron, Newman, Nader America
• Application Number:
  US12/976,363
• Publication Number:
  US 20120005376A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 710/8
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5011 the resources being hardware resources other than CPUs, Servers and Terminals
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/08 User group management
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/50 Service provisioning or reconfiguring

Abstract

There is provided a method and system for sharing a pre-determined plurality of resources of a limited resource computing device with a plurality of resource dependent devices. The method comprises: determining a plurality of groups based on said pre-determined plurality of resources; classifying each said resource dependent device as a member of one of said groups based on device information associated therewith; associating each said group with a particular one of said pre-determined resources, such that each said group shares said particular resource; and selecting one of said resource dependent devices in each said group for permitting subsequent connection between said selected resource dependent device with said associated particular resource.

Claims

1. A method of sharing a pre-determined plurality of resources of a limited resource computing device with a plurality of resource dependent devices, the method comprising:

(a) determining a plurality of groups based on said pre-determined plurality of resources;

(b) classifying each said resource dependent device as a member of one of said groups based on device information associated therewith;

(c) associating each said group with a particular one of said pre-determined resources, such that each said group shares said particular resource; and

(d) selecting one of said resource dependent devices in each said group for permitting subsequent connection between said selected resource dependent device with said associated particular resource.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein classifying each said resource dependent device as said member of one of said groups further comprises:

(a) associating a first group and a first particular resource of said pre-determined plurality of resources to a first resource dependent device; and

(b) automatically associating a second resource dependent device classified in said first group with said first particular resource.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the device information comprises at least one of:

class of device, device type, device manufacturer, Bluetooth address, services provided by said resource dependent device, and device characteristics.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein classifying said first resource dependent device in said first group is in dependence upon a pre-defined commonality between the device information of each said resource dependent device in said first group.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein selecting one of said resource dependent devices from each group for permitting subsequent connection with said associated particular resource further comprises:

providing a user interface for facilitating selection of said one resource dependent device from each group.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein selecting one of said resource dependent devices from each group for permitting subsequent connection with said associated particular resource is in response to receiving a connection request for connecting said selected resource dependent device with said associated particular resource.

7. The method of claim 2, further comprising:

providing an interface for manually changing the association of said second resource dependent device to a second group of devices.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein each of said plurality of resources is associated with one of:

a single communication port, a USB interface, a virtual port, and a Bluetooth serial port.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

generating a list of available resource dependent devices for subsequently classifying each available resource dependent device as a member of one of said groups.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein generating the list further comprises one of:

automatically, manually and semi-automatically generating the list.

11. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

providing a user interface for manually reconfiguring one of;

the classification of at least one of said resource dependent devices as a member of a particular group of said groups to classify said at least one of said resource dependent devices as a member of a second group of said groups; and

the association between a selected group of said groups and said particular one of said pre-determined resources.

12. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

deselecting said selected one of said resource dependent devices in at least one said group for selecting a second of said resource dependent devices in said at least one said group for permitting subsequent connection between said selected second resource dependent device with said associated particular resource.

13. The method of claim 11, further comprising:

automatically reconfiguring each of said resource dependent devices associated with said particular group as a member of said second group.

14. The method of claim 1, wherein associating a particular group with said particular one of said pre-determined resources is based on device information of said resource dependent devices in said particular group, said device information comprising at least one of:

a class of device, a device type, services provided by said device, manufacturer information, and device characteristics.

15. A computing device for configuring sharing of a plurality of resources of a limited resource computing device with a plurality of resource dependent devices, the computing device comprising:

a processor;

a memory coupled to the processor having instructions stored thereon for execution by the processor, the memory comprising instructions for;

determining a plurality of groups based on said pre-determined plurality of resources;

classifying each said resource dependent device as a member of one of said groups based on device information associated therewith;

associating each said group with a particular one of said pre-determined resources, such that each said group shares said particular resource; and

selecting one of said resource dependent devices in each said group for permitting subsequent connection between said selected resource dependent device with said associated particular resource.

16. The computing device of claim 15, further comprising a user interface and wherein wherein classifying each said resource dependent device as said member of one of said groups further comprises:

(a) associating a first group and a first particular resource of said pre-determined plurality of resources to a first resource dependent device, via the user interface; and

(b) automatically associating a second resource dependent device classified in said first group with said first particular resource.

17. The computing device of claim 15, wherein the device information comprises at least one of:

class of device, device type, device manufacturer, Bluetooth address, services provided by said resource dependent device, and device characteristics.

18. The computing device of claim 17, wherein the memory further comprises instructions for classifying said first resource dependent device in said first group in dependence upon a pre-defined commonality between the device information of each said resource dependent device in said first group.

19. The computing device of claim 15, further comprising a user interface and wherein the memory comprising instructions for selecting one of said resource dependent devices from each group for permitting subsequent connection with said associated particular resource further comprises:

selecting, via the user interface, one of said resource dependent devices from each group for permitting subsequent communication with the computing device.

20. The computing device of claim 15, wherein each of said plurality of resources is associated with one of:

a single communication port, a USB interface, a virtual port, and a Bluetooth serial port.

21. The computing device of claim 15, further comprising a locator module for generating a list of available resource dependent devices for subsequently classifying each available resource dependent device as a member of one of said groups.