Method and System for Configuring Sharing Input Apparatus Among Devices

• US 20150052442A1
• Filed: 11/03/2014
• Published: 02/19/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 07/30/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Li, Dongyuan
• Application Number:
  US14/530,981
• Publication Number:
  US 20150052442A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/735
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04847 Interaction techniques to control parameter settings, e.g. interaction with sliders or dials
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1423 controlling a plurality of local displays, e.g. CRT and flat panel display
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0806 for initial configuration or provisioning, e.g. plug-and-play
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0846 based on copy from other elements
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0889 Techniques to speed-up the configuration process
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/22 comprising specially adapted graphical user interfaces [GUI]

Abstract

A method and a system for configuring sharing of an input apparatus among devices are provided. The method includes: receiving an instruction for configuring sharing of an input apparatus among devices, where the devices include this device and at least one adjacent device; sending an adjacent device search request message by using a communications module of this device; receiving device information fed back by the adjacent device; analyzing a device name and a network address of the adjacent device according to the device information; and transferring a configuration file of configuring sharing of the input apparatus among devices to the adjacent device, so that the adjacent device configures sharing of the input apparatus among devices according to the configuration file. The present invention enables a user to configure all adjacent devices on only one device when configuring the inter-device shared input apparatus, and operations are convenient.

Claims

1. A method for configuring sharing of an input apparatus among devices, comprising:

receiving an instruction for configuring sharing of an input apparatus among devices, wherein the devices comprise a device and at least one adjacent device;

sending an adjacent device search request message by using a communications module of the device;

receiving device information fed back by the adjacent device according to the adjacent device search request message;

analyzing a device name and a network address of the adjacent device according to the device information; and

transferring a configuration file of configuring sharing of the input apparatus among devices to the adjacent device such that the adjacent device configures sharing of the input apparatus among devices according to the configuration file.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein after analyzing the device name and the network address of the adjacent device according to the device information, the method further comprises:

prompting the device name of the adjacent device and a display position of the configurable adjacent device relative to the device; and

receiving configuration of the display position of the adjacent device selected by a user relative to the device.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein after transferring the configuration file of configuring sharing of the input apparatus among devices to the adjacent device, the method further comprises receiving confirmed configuration completion information fed back by the adjacent device.

4. The method according to claim 2, wherein before receiving the configuration of the display position of the adjacent device selected by the user relative to the device, the method further comprises:

sending an application message indicating whether to intend to accept the configuration to the adjacent device selected by the user;

receiving an intention message fed back by the adjacent device selected by the user;

performing transferring the configuration file of configuring sharing of the input apparatus among devices to the adjacent device when the intention message indicates an intention to accept the configuration; and

terminating a process when the intention message indicates an intention not to accept the configuration.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the instruction for configuring sharing of the input apparatus among devices comprises a display border of the device is touched, a mouse cursor of the device collides with the display border according to the predetermined number of times, a preset file icon of the device collides with the display border according to the predetermined number of times and/or the device is shaken at a predetermined speed.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein the device and the adjacent device communicate in a wireless manner, and the wireless manner comprises Bluetooth®

, infrared, or Wireless-Fidelity (Wi-Fi).

7. A method for configuring sharing of an input apparatus among devices, comprising:

sending an adjacent device search request message by using a communications module of a device according to a predetermined period, wherein the devices comprise the device and at least one adjacent device;

receiving device information fed back by the adjacent device according to the adjacent device search request message;

sending a query instruction to the adjacent device to query whether the adjacent device has completed the configuration of sharing the input apparatus among devices when the device has completed configuration of sharing the input apparatus among devices; and

sending a configuration file of configuring sharing of the input apparatus among devices to the adjacent device such that the adjacent device configures sharing of the input apparatus among devices according to the configuration file when the adjacent device has not completed the configuration of sharing the input apparatus among devices.

8. The method according to claim 7, wherein the devices does not complete the configuration of sharing the input apparatus among devices and after receiving the device information fed back by the adjacent device according to the adjacent device search request message, the method further comprises:

receiving an instruction, which is sent by the adjacent device that has completed the configuration of sharing the input apparatus among devices, for querying whether the device has completed the configuration of sharing the input apparatus among devices to enable the device to send the feedback of no configuration to the adjacent device that has completed the configuration of sharing the input apparatus among devices;

receiving the configuration file of configuring sharing of the input apparatus among devices sent by the adjacent device that has completed the configuration of sharing the input apparatus among devices; and

configuring sharing of the input apparatus for the device according to the configuration file.

9. The method according to claim 7, wherein the device and the adjacent device communicate in a wireless manner, and the wireless manner comprises Bluetooth®

, infrared, or Wireless-Fidelity (Wi-Fi).

10. A method for managing an adjacent device sharing an input apparatus, comprising:

configuring a device as a management device for managing the adjacent device sharing the input apparatus after the adjacent device completes configuration of sharing the input apparatus among devices;

displaying, by the device, information about all adjacent devices that complete the configuration of sharing the input apparatus among devices such that a user selects which adjacent device is to be managed;

acquiring, by using a communications module of the device, screen display content of the adjacent device selected by the user or a default adjacent device;

displaying the screen display content on a monitor of the device;

transferring input operation information to the adjacent device selected by the user or the default adjacent device such that the adjacent device selected by the user or the default adjacent device performs the corresponding input operation when the user performs an input operation by using an input apparatus of the device; and

acquiring, by using the communications module of the device, a result after the adjacent device selected by the user or the default adjacent device performs the corresponding input operation; and

displaying the result on the monitor of the device.

11. The method according to claim 10, wherein the configuration of sharing the input apparatus among devices is configured to:

receive an instruction for configuring sharing of an input apparatus among devices, wherein the devices comprise the device and at least one adjacent device;

send an adjacent device search request message by using the communications module of the device;

receive device information fed back by the adjacent device according to the adjacent device search request message;

analyze a device name and a network address of the adjacent device according to the device information; and

transfer a configuration file of configuring sharing of the input apparatus among devices to the adjacent device such that the adjacent device configures sharing of the input apparatus among devices according to the configuration file.

12. The method according to claim 10, wherein the device and the adjacent device communicate in a wireless manner, and the wireless manner comprises Bluetooth®

, infrared, or Wireless-Fidelity (Wi-Fi).