METHOD OF IDENTIFYING DEVICES IN MOBILE AND DESKTOP ENVIRONMENTS

摘要

A method of providing connectivity between a mobile device and a desktop computing device: providing the mobile device with software that can be installed in the desktop computing device to provide configuration data to application software operating on the desktop computing device, including device identification data for addressing the mobile device; using the mobile device to detect all desktop computing devices with which the mobile device can communicate; using the mobile device to select one of the desktop computing devices on which the application software is to be installed; transmitting the software from the mobile device to the desktop computing device; using the desktop computing device to run the software to configure the application software using configuration data such that communications from the desktop computing device to the mobile device using application software are addressed directly to the mobile device from which the software originated.