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Figure 21 A laptop and<br />

peripheral devices connected<br />

to the network<br />

Figure 22 A laptop and<br />

peripheral devices not connected<br />

to the network. In this<br />

case the necessary drivers can<br />

be downloaded and installed<br />

on the laptop using the Virtual<br />

Terminal<br />

122<br />

Peripheral devices<br />

(printer, scanner,<br />

screen etc...)<br />

printer<br />

Laptop/PDA<br />

scanner<br />

Peripheral devices<br />

(printer, scanner,<br />

screen etc...)<br />

Laptop/PDA<br />

drivers<br />

printer<br />

TV screen<br />

camera<br />

projector<br />

Bluetooth for detection<br />

of unknown devices TELECOM<br />

NETWORK<br />

scanner<br />

TV screen<br />

camera<br />

Bluetooth for detection<br />

and transportation<br />

projector<br />

6.3.4.3 Releasing Devices from a Session<br />

Releasing a device from an active session should<br />

be a very straightforward task. The user can<br />

either communicate this to the Virtual Terminal<br />

via one of his other active devices or simply turn<br />

off the device to be released.<br />

6.4 Configuring the Devices<br />

Another functionality the Virtual Terminal can<br />

offer is to help the user configure his different<br />

devices when this is required. This will be illustrated<br />

by the following examples.<br />

Assume the Virtual Terminal contains a set of<br />

communication and computing devices + peripheral<br />

devices. Again, there are two different cases<br />

similar to the ones mentioned above, with or<br />

without network connection. We consider a laptop<br />

and peripheral devices such as a printer, a<br />

scanner, a digital camera, etc.<br />

When the peripheral devices are connected to the<br />

network, the communication with these devices<br />

can go through the network. A Bluetooth link<br />

can be used to detect available unknown devices<br />

and to find out which drivers they require, etc.<br />

The different drivers for the printers, scanners,<br />

TELECOM<br />

NETWORK<br />

VT<br />

Drivers<br />

VT<br />

etc. can be contained in the Virtual Terminal and<br />

do not need to be installed on the laptop.<br />

Another advantage is that the laptop and the<br />

peripheral devices can be far away, for example<br />

the user can send data to his home printer even if<br />

he is away.<br />

In the case where the laptop wants to communicate<br />

with foreign peripheral devices that are not<br />

connected to the network, a cable or a cable substitute<br />

such as a Bluetooth link is needed for<br />

direct communication. In this case the laptop<br />

must have the appropriate drivers installed. The<br />

Virtual Terminal can find the necessary drivers<br />

for the devices and then send and install them on<br />

the laptop. It can also clean up when the mobile<br />

device moves on – i.e. delete the drivers when<br />

they are no longer needed.<br />

6.5 Administrating the Virtual<br />

Terminal<br />

As specified earlier this use case consists of five<br />

sub use cases: Accessing profile, Defining/deleting<br />

a device, Registering/deregistering a device,<br />

Reading mailbox, Reading usage statistics. In<br />

this section, we will examine each of these use<br />

cases successively.<br />

Telektronikk 1.2001

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