Abstract: The present invention enables a USB device to provide its own vendor-specific device driver and invoke and install vendor-specific installation software stored on the USB device itself. In one embodiment of the invention, the present invention enables communication between a USB device and a host by receiving a USB device into a USB connection port embedded within the host, enumerating the USB device as a device belonging to a first class, providing a user with access to the USB device wherein the access permits a user to find a program for the USB device and invoke the program, installing the stored program; and recognizing and/or enumerating the USB device as a device from a second class, different from the first class, upon any successive connection of the USB device into the USB connection port of the host.

Abstract: The present invention relates generally to devices and methods for communicating between a host computer and a peripheral device, such as a monitor or printer, and, more particularly, to enable efficient communication between a host and a plurality of such USB peripheral devices without substantial bandwidth degradation. In one embodiment, a device driver, in data communication with a configuration application executing on a host computer, instructs a secondary USB device to accept data packets related to not only its own unique address but also of at least one other primary USB device whose address was additionally caused to be stored with the USB device.