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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 09, 2006
Filed:
Apr. 03, 2002
Yann Stephan, Echirolles, FR;
Yann Stephan, Echirolles, FR;
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
Devices connected to a communications bus are selectively accessed to the bus that communicates between one or more devices and a host machine. On the basis of analyzed device characteristics, communication between the device and the host machine via the bus is enabled or disabled. Filtering software intercepts the results of a GET_DESCRIPTOR function and compares same with the contents of a disallowed device characteristic list. If the device is disallowed, data flow is remapped to a generic driver which halts configuration or communication on the bus. Alternatively, configuration/communication on the bus is halted for that device.