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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 14, 2015
Filed:
Sep. 15, 2011
Sreekumar Ramakrishnan Nair, San Jose, CA (US);
Weidong Shi, Pearland, TX (US);
Timothy Youngjin Sohn, Mountain View, CA (US);
Adhyas Avasthi, Fremont, CA (US);
Cynthia Kuo, Mountain View, CA (US);
Rachel Beth Hinman, Mountain View, CA (US);
Quinn Able Jacobson, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Sreekumar Ramakrishnan Nair, San Jose, CA (US);
Weidong Shi, Pearland, TX (US);
Timothy Youngjin Sohn, Mountain View, CA (US);
Adhyas Avasthi, Fremont, CA (US);
Cynthia Kuo, Mountain View, CA (US);
Rachel Beth Hinman, Mountain View, CA (US);
Quinn Able Jacobson, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Nokia Technologies Oy, Espoo, FI;
Abstract
Methods and apparatuses are provided for facilitating sharing device connections across multiple physical and/or virtual (logical) computers. A method may include receiving a USB device request from a virtual host controller driver of a client when a host is not in a power save mode and passing a USB device request to a host controller driver of the client when the host is in a power save mode. A method may also include activating a sharing switch of a host controller to connect a device connection port to the host when the host is not in a power save mode and to connect the device connection port to the client when the host is in a power save mode. Corresponding apparatuses and computer program products are also provided.