PORT SHARING ON A COMPUTING DEVICE
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Oct 27, 2011
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Apr 23, 2010
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Apr 23, 2010
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A computing device is configured to communicate with a peripheral via a connector having a predefined physical configuration and a predefined number of pins. The computing device comprising memory for storing instructions and a processor for executing the instructions. The instructions cause the processor to implement the following steps. Communication with the peripheral is initialized using a predefined initialization protocol via at least one predefined pin. Information relating to a pinout configuration defining a logical configuration of the pins is received from the peripheral. The pinout configuration is assigned to the pins. Communicating with the peripheral in commenced using the pinout configuration. A peripheral configured to communicate with the computing device and the methods for communicating there between are also described.
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