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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 19, 2010
Filed:
Aug. 15, 2008
John Alexander Mcleod, Surrey, CA;
John Alexander McLeod, Surrey, CA;
Icron Technologies Corporation, Burnaby, CA;
Abstract
A method and apparatus are provided to enable a plurality of standard USB peripheral devices, utilizing the USB specification, to be distributed at various nodes across a network, wherein communications across the network may take advantage of any pre-existing network connectivity of a standard, non-modified USB host computer. In particular, a reflector function is added in order to reflect data communications towards a pre-existing transceiver. As a result, the host computer establishes a first profile and second profile for data communication purposes, and uses these profiles to communicate across the network using pre-existing data communication components.