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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 14, 2015
Filed:
Jun. 20, 2008
James G. Cavalaris, Kirkland, WA (US);
Narayanan Ganapathy, Redmond, WA (US);
Doron J. Holan, Seattle, WA (US);
Randall E. Aull, Kenmore, WA (US);
Paresh J. Maisuria, Bellevue, WA (US);
James G. Cavalaris, Kirkland, WA (US);
Narayanan Ganapathy, Redmond, WA (US);
Doron J. Holan, Seattle, WA (US);
Randall E. Aull, Kenmore, WA (US);
Paresh J. Maisuria, Bellevue, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC., Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A computer system that accesses multi-transport devices and associates device instances of the multi-transport device with each other. Devices provide the same device identifier such as a device unique identifier regardless of the transport over which the device is accessed. A visual representation for the multi-transport device may be provided to a user using the device identifier. Also, a single functional representation for the multi-transport device may be provided based on an identifier provided by each function of the device. The functional representation may be independent of the addition and removal of transports and allows abstracting device access via multiple transports from a user and an application. Transports may be selected at an application and/or a system level. Operating characteristics of available transports may be used to select a desired transport, based on transport requirements specified by the application, the user or the system.