ENABLING A COMPUTING DEVICE TO UTILIZE ANOTHER COMPUTING DEVICE
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1. A computing system comprising:
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a machine-readable storage medium encoded with instructions executable by the processor, the machine-readable storage medium comprising;
instructions for receiving a request to add a contact to a user'"'"'s profile; and
instructions for making available, to a first computing device associated with a contact'"'"'s profile, configuration data for a second computing device associated with the user'"'"'s profile in response to the request, wherein the configuration data is useable by the first computing device to obtain instructions executable by the first computing device that, when executed, enable the first computing device to utilize the second computing device.
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Abstract
Example embodiments disclosed herein relate to enabling a first computing device to utilize a second computing device. In example embodiments, configuration data for the second computing device, made available to the first computing device, may be used in enabling the first computing device to utilize the second computing device.
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1. A computing system comprising:
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a processor; and a machine-readable storage medium encoded with instructions executable by the processor, the machine-readable storage medium comprising; instructions for receiving a request to add a contact to a user'"'"'s profile; and instructions for making available, to a first computing device associated with a contact'"'"'s profile, configuration data for a second computing device associated with the user'"'"'s profile in response to the request, wherein the configuration data is useable by the first computing device to obtain instructions executable by the first computing device that, when executed, enable the first computing device to utilize the second computing device. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
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7. A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium encoded with instructions executable by a processor that, when executed, cause the processor to:
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store a user'"'"'s profile; receive a request to alter a user'"'"'s profile; and make available, to a first computing device, first configuration data stored in a database for a second computing device identified in the user'"'"'s profile in response to the request to alter the user'"'"'s profile, wherein the first configuration data is useable by the first computing device to obtain a first device driver usable to enable the first computing device to utilize the second computing device. - View Dependent Claims (8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. A method comprising:
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providing, to a server computing device with a first client computing device, a request to add a contact to a user'"'"'s profile, wherein the first client computing device is associated with the user'"'"'s profile; receiving, from the server computing device with the first client computing device, configuration data for a second client computing device associated with a profile of the contact; retrieving, with the first client computing device, a first device driver for the second client computing device from a location specified by the configuration data; and installing the first device driver on the first computing device to enable the first client computing device to utilize the second client computing device. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15)
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