HUB-TO-HUB PERIPHERAL DISCOVERY

摘要

Aspects of the disclosure enable location of a wireless peripheral by a computing device even when the wireless peripheral is beyond a communication range of, or otherwise inaccessible by, the computing device. A user gives a command to a first computing device to determine the location of the wireless peripheral. The first computing device requests other networked computing devices to locate the wireless peripheral. At least one of the other networked computing devices establishes communication with the wireless peripheral, obtains location information for the wireless peripheral, and communicates the location information to the first computing device. The first computing device communicates the location of the wireless peripheral to the user.

主权项

1. A system for locating peripherals enabling interaction with a computing device, the computing device being connected to at least one other computing device, said system comprising:
a memory area for storing data comprising a device identifier associated with at least one of the peripherals; and a processor programmed to:
receive, by the computing device, a request from a user to locate the at least one of the peripherals, the at least one of the peripherals being in a low power state;communicate with the at least one other computing device to obtain location information associated with the at least one of the peripherals, wherein said communication includes providing a subset of the stored data that includes the device identifier associated with the at least one of the peripherals to the at least one other computing device;receive, at the computing device, the location information from the at least one other computing device; andprovide the received location information to the user.