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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 02, 2019
Filed:
Jan. 05, 2016
Avocent Huntsville, Llc, Huntsville, AL (US);
James R. Mataya, Everett, WA (US);
Christopher R. Hinshaw, Redmond, WA (US);
Karl S. Mills, Lynnwood, WA (US);
VERTIV IT SYSTEMS, INC., Wilmington, DE (US);
Abstract
The present disclosure relates to a system and method for enabling implementation of a secondary function of a universal serial bus (USB) device on a computer that the USB device is communicating with, wherein an operating system of the computer does not have a required driver which needs to be mapped to the USB device to enable implementation of the secondary function. The system involves a USB device which has the required driver for implementing the secondary function stored therein. The required driver can be supplied to the computer from the USB device using a control which selects the secondary function of the USB device.