Accessing a portable device connected to one computer across multiple computers in a network may become quicker, easier and unattended.

The geniuses at Microsoft seems to have developed a technique that enables a portable device, connected to a computing device, to be associated with multiple computing devices automatically with no manual re-configure. Here, Microsoft claims to store the authentication information from the first computer to a centralized depository accessible by other computers.

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Ofcourse the interesting part is, this eliminates the need of human intervention to manually establish a trustworthy connection between the portable device and each of the computers. This technique essentially re-uses the authentication information generated when the first connection was made.

Explaining how useful this technique can be, Microsoft cites the example of a wireless headset. Once you configure your wireless headset (or any portable device for that matter) with your home computer, you need not configure it again with your work computer.

Considering this still an application to the US Patent Office, which is yet to be approved, it is only anyone’s guess when the technology will get implemented.

Images courtesy: US Patent and Trademark Office.