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Date of Patent:
Mar. 13, 2018

Filed:

Jul. 10, 2015
Applicant:

Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);

Inventors:

Christopher James Robinson, Bellevue, WA (US);

Laura Marie Caulfield, Woodinville, WA (US);

Brian Charles Coyne, Seattle, WA (US);

Mukesh Cooblal, Redmond, WA (US);

Mark Alan Santaniello, Redmond, WA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 13/40 (2006.01); G06F 13/42 (2006.01); G06F 11/36 (2006.01); G06F 13/38 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 13/4022 (2013.01); G06F 11/3648 (2013.01); G06F 13/385 (2013.01); G06F 13/4282 (2013.01);
Abstract

Obtaining data about a peripheral device deployed in a computing environment. A method includes transmitting a primary data stream across a shared communication channel between the peripheral device and a host hosting the peripheral device. The method further includes transmitting on the shared communication channel, a secondary state information stream of consecutively occurring messages with peripheral device state information.


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