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Coupled device deployment location classification

Active Publication Date: 2017-08-03
NCR VOYIX CORP
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This solution enhances security by automatically configuring device connections, limiting fraudulent transactions, and optimizing device usage by enabling precise control over data entry and processing based on device types and locations without user intervention.

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Such acceptable ports may be internal ports or ports of a root USB hub while unacceptable ports are ports that exposed externally to the POS terminal controlling computer or to a hub other than the root hub.

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[0009]Various embodiments herein each include at least one of devices, methods, and software for coupled device deployment location classification in an automated manner. Such classification allows for devices coupled to a computing device, such as a computer, to be classified by where they are connected to the computing device. This classification facilitates enabling and disabling certain functions of or usage of devices in all or certain ways according to configuration settings with regard to device-types and functions of and usage thereof. For example, when the computing device is a computer that controls operation of a POS terminal, a magnetic stripe reader (MSR) device coupled direct to a root USB hub of the computer may be enabled to allow for bankcard data (e.g., credit card, debit card automate teller machine card, etc.) to be received by the computer while an MSR device coupled to another USB hub may be disabled with regard to bankcard data but enabled with regard to a cus...

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Various embodiments herein each include at least one of devices, methods, and software for coupled device deployment location classification in an automated manner. One embodiment, in the form of a method, includes searching a device tree of a computing device to identify any devices of interest. This method, for each identified device of interest, may then identify a path within the computing device of the device of interest and classify, based on the identified path, a relative location of the device of interest. This method may then store the classification of the device of interest in a memory device of the computing device.

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BACKGROUND INFORMATION[0001]Computing devices, such as personal computers, include different ports through which devices may be coupled. Certain types of devices may be considered acceptable for connection to any port while other devices may only be acceptable when connected to a certain port or a port at a particular location of the device to which it is coupled. For example, it may not be acceptable for a device of a certain device-type to be coupled to certain Universal-Serial Bus (USB) ports of a computer controlling a point-of-sale (POS) terminal, but acceptable with regard to other ports. Such acceptable ports may be internal ports or ports of a root USB hub while unacceptable ports are ports that exposed externally to the POS terminal controlling computer or to a hub other than the root hub. To date, such limitations can be implemented only after manual configuration of the computing device to classify connections of specific devices to a computing device.SUMMARY[0002]Various...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(United States)
IPC IPC(8): G06F13/40G06Q20/20G06K7/08G06F13/42G06F13/36
CPCG06F13/4068G06F13/4282G06Q20/208G06K7/084G06F13/36G06F13/385G06F9/4411G06F21/85G06Q20/20G06F2213/0042G06F21/6209G06Q20/3224G06F2221/2113G06F2221/2141G06F2221/2145
Inventor CAINE, NICHOLASMAYO, DAVID
Owner NCR VOYIX CORP