USB AUTORUN DEVICE

摘要

A portable, application-specific USB autorun device, following connection to a computer terminal, automatically initialises or presents itself as a known type of device and then automatically sends to the terminal a sequence of data complying with a standard protocol, that sequence of data automatically causing content to be accessed or a task to be initiated. The device (i) includes a standardised USB module that includes a USB microcontroller, the standardised module being designed to be attached to or embedded in multiple types of different, application specific packages but (ii) excludes mass memory storage for applications or end-user data.

主权项

1. A method of enabling a computing device to be automatically configured, comprising the steps of:
(a) a user inserting or connecting a USB autorun peripheral device to the computing device; (b) the USB autorun peripheral device sending to the computing device a sequence of data complying with a standard protocol; (c) the sequence of data, including configuration settings data, being processed at the computing device to automatically configure the computing device to a defined state or condition; and (d) in which the sequence of data, without any prior input of a website address for the web server or login data for that website or prior input of unique data identifying the device at any earlier time by a user, automates the configuration to the defined state.