DYNAMIC DE-REGISTERING OF DEVICES IN SYSTEM WITH MULTIPLE COMMUNICATION PROTOCOLS

摘要

AN INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM (100) HAS FIRST AND SECOND ELECTRONIC SUB-SYSTEMS (102 AND 104, RESPECTIVELY) AND CONTROL MEANS (108) FOR CONTROLLING THE SUB-SYSTEMS. AT LEAST THE FIRST SUB-SYSTEM HAS A SOFTWARE REPRESENTATION (110) REGISTERED WITH THE CONTROL MEANS. THE CONTROL MEANS CHANGES A STATE OF THE FIRST SUB-SYSTEM THROUGH INTERACTING WITH THE SOFTWARE REPRESENTATION. THE FIRST AND SECOND SUB-SYTEMS ARE ALSO CAPABLE OF INTERACTING DIRECTLY WITH ONE ANOTHER WITHOUT THE CONTROL MEANS BEING INVOLVED. TO AVOID CONFLICTS, AT LEAST THE FIRST SUB-SYSTEM IS CAPABLE OF DE-REGISTERING (206) WITH THE CONTROL MEANS SO AS TO FUNCTIONALLY DISABLE ITS SOFTWARE REPRESENTATION AT THE CONTROL MEANS.FIG. 1