Interconnection of peripheral devices on different electronic devices

摘要

A method and apparatus of performing a data transmission from an electronic device or a peripheral device of an electronic device to a peripheral device of a remote electronic device is disclosed. One example method of performing the data transmission may include transmitting data designated for the remote peripheral device to a local virtual device object. The data that is received by the local virtual device object is transmitted via at least one communication interface or peripheral device of the electronic device to at least one remote communication interface or peripheral device of the remote electronic device. The data arriving at the least one remote communication interface or peripheral device of the remote electronic device is received by a remote virtual device object and transmitted to the designated remote peripheral device.

主权项

1. A method comprising:
querying an electronic device to obtain information of at least one existing peripheral device; copying the information of the at least one existing peripheral device; determining allocated memory locations of the electronic device that are already allocated by the at least one existing peripheral device based on the information of the at least one existing peripheral device; creating unallocated memory based on the allocated memory locations and assigning the unallocated memory to a first virtual device as first virtual device memory; analyzing capabilities of the at least one existing peripheral device; allocating at least one of a reading memory and a writing memory to be used by the at least one existing peripheral device; creating a first virtual device based on the allocation of at least one of the reading memory and the writing memory; receiving data at a physical interface of the electronic device; locking at least one of the allocated memory locations of the electronic device via the first virtual device to prevent any device other than the first virtual device from reading the data stored in the at least one of the allocated memory locations; copying the data from the locked allocated memory location to the first virtual device memory and clearing the data from the locked allocated memory location; creating a second virtual device configured to receive data transmitted by the first virtual device when a memory area allocated to the first virtual device is locked; selecting the second virtual device to unlock the first virtual device memory area; and transmitting data from the first virtual device when the memory area of the first virtual device is unlocked.