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Date of Patent:
Nov. 06, 2018

Filed:

Apr. 24, 2014
Applicant:

Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.p., Houston, TX (US);

Inventors:

Juliano Godinho Varaschin de Moraes, Mountain View, CA (US);

Nicholas Hallas, Palo Alto, CA (US);

John Michael Main, Fort Collins, CO (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/00 (2006.01); G06F 9/4401 (2018.01); G06F 13/38 (2006.01); G06F 1/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/4411 (2013.01); G06F 1/1632 (2013.01); G06F 1/1684 (2013.01); G06F 13/385 (2013.01);
Abstract

Examples relate to extending hardware support for sensors embedded in peripherals. In some examples, a driver is used to determine that a peripheral device includes a sensor in response to the peripheral device being attached to a mobile computing device, where the driver is preloaded in an operating system kernel of the mobile computing device. Next, a list of supported hardware features is updated to include a peripheral hardware feature that is provided by a sensor of the peripheral device, and the list of supported hardware features is sent to an application store server. At this stage, a list of available applications that are compatible with the list of supported hardware features is received from the application store server.


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