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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 25, 2020
Filed:
Jan. 26, 2017
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
John C. Gordon, Newcastle, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A technique is described herein by which a user may gain access to a target resource via one or more particular peripheral devices that have been associated with the user. The technique performs this task by detecting when a user communicatively couples an identity-bearing component to a hub device. The user may thereafter use any input and/or output peripheral device that is also coupled to hub device to interact with the target resource, in a manner specified by authentication information associated with the user. In another use scenario, two or more users may interact with the same target resource via respective collections of user-associated peripheral devices.