Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Arvind R Aiyar

Firdosh Kersy Bhesania

David Abzarian

Randall Edward Aull

Tommy T Nguyen

Vivek Gupta

George Evangelos Roussos

Robbie Harris

Di Da

A peripheral device class identifier is generated for a class of peripheral devices, and is used to identify a setup record that indicates how to install or otherwise set up the class of peripheral devices on a computing device. The peripheral device class identifier is a combination of three components: a vendor identifier, a namespace identifier, and a namespace entry identifier. The vendor identifier is an identifier of the vendor of the class of peripheral devices. The namespace identifier is an identifier of different collections or groups of types of peripheral devices or types of functionality of peripheral devices. The namespace entry identifier is an identifier of a particular type of peripheral device (or particular functionality) of the different collections or groups of types of peripheral devices (or types of functionality of peripheral devices).

Vendor-specific peripheral device class identifiers

In one example, a host device may identify a serial device connected to the host device to determine a host action. The host device may receive a serial device signal with a child serial device identifier from a serial device bridge. The host device may identify a child serial device based on the child serial device identifier. The host device may execute a host action based on the child serial device.

Child serial device discovery protocol

In embodiments of HID over simple peripheral buses, a peripheral sensor receives inputs from a peripheral device, and the peripheral sensor implements an HID SPB interface to interface the peripheral device with a computing system via a simple peripheral bus (SPB) in an HID data format. The peripheral sensor can also receive extensibility data for a proprietary function of the peripheral device, and communicate the inputs from the peripheral device and the extensibility data via the simple peripheral bus in the computing system. Alternatively or in addition, a peripheral sensor can generate sensor data and the HID SPB interface interfaces the peripheral sensor with the computing system via the simple peripheral bus. The peripheral sensor can then communicate the sensor data as well as extensibility data for a proprietary function of the peripheral sensor via the simple peripheral bus in the HID data format to the computing system.

HID over simple peripheral buses

In embodiments of host side implementation for HID IC data bus, a computing system includes a human interface device (HID) software stack that implements device software, such as for embedded devices, that interfaces the computing system to a peripheral device via HID over IC. An HID IC driver interfaces the HID software stack with the peripheral devices that each include an HID IC interface to a device that communicates data in the computing system via an IC data bus. The HID IC driver is compatible and interfaces with IC controller drivers and GPIO controller drivers of the devices, where the IC controller drivers and the GPIO controller drivers may each have a different implementation configuration.

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In embodiments of human interface device (HID) over simple peripheral buses, a peripheral sensor receives inputs from a peripheral device, and the peripheral sensor implements an HID SPB interface to interface the peripheral device with a computing system via a simple peripheral bus (SPB) in an HID data format. The peripheral sensor can receive extensibility data for a proprietary function of the peripheral device, and communicate the inputs from the peripheral device and the extensibility data via the simple peripheral bus in the computing system. Alternatively or in addition, a peripheral sensor can generate sensor data and the HID SPB interface interfaces the peripheral sensor with the computing system via the simple peripheral bus. The peripheral sensor can then communicate the sensor data as well as extensibility data for a proprietary function of the peripheral sensor via the simple peripheral bus in the HID data format to the computing system.

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Arvind R Aiyar