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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 07, 2017
Filed:
Sep. 10, 2014
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Andrew Thomas Baron, Redmond, WA (US);
Chih-Chung Chang, Redmond, WA (US);
Eliot John Flannery, Seattle, WA (US);
Gianluigi Nusca, Seattle, WA (US);
Vineet Venugopal, Bellevue, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
This document describes management capabilities for a wireless docking experience. A wireless dock is configured to connect to multiple peripheral devices, such as a monitor, a keyboard, and a mouse. Mobile devices can connect to the wireless dock, via a short-range wireless connection, to utilize the multiple peripheral devices. When deployed with other wireless docks, the wireless dock can be configured to provide management information with a broadcast signal that is usable by the mobile devices to manage the wireless connection to, and experience with, the wireless dock. The management information can include one or more of a do-not-automatically-connect indicator, an in-use indicator, an Internet-available indicator, or a group identifier.