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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8176503 | Device driver selection Methods, systems, and devices are provided for device driver selection. One embodiment of a management station includes a processor, memory in communication with the processor, and program instructions stored in memory and executable on the processor. The program in... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8136126 | Overriding potential competing optimization algorithms within layers of device drivers A method, system, and computer program product for managing data optimization routines in device drivers in a data transmission path. In a data transmission path, data optimization routines associated with device drivers are identified. When data is received in the ... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8132187 | Driver installer usable in plural environments An executable file can be constructed that contains different driver installer code for use in different environments. A first executable file contains first program code that performs driver installation operations in a first environment, and that also checks to de... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8127310 | Method and apparatus for dynamically switching display drivers in mobile device operating system A method and a system for dynamically switching, without initialization, display drivers of a mobile telephone or personal digital assistant having a processing unit operative with a mobile device operating system, wherein a display driver interface manager is embed... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8122458 | Device communication interface system The device communication interface obtains a device driver corresponding to a device connected to the input and output interface from a server on a communication network via a communication interface, and outputs information, which is input via the input and output ... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8112769 | System and method for implementing and/or operating network interface devices to achieve network-based communications A computer system, and related components including network interface devices, as well as methods for implementing and/or operating network interface devices to achieve network-based communications, are disclosed. In at least one embodiment, the computer system incl... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8074233 | Information processing apparatus and configuring method According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes a monitoring module which periodically transmits a message to a device driver which controls a device controller in accordance with an instruction issued by a program executed by a CPU to driv... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8074232 | Method for improving the communication of the human interface device A method for improving the communication of the human interface device, comprising reporting at least one interrupt input endpoint and at least one interrupt output endpoint to the host; specifying that the USB device has a report descriptor in the HID class descrip... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8065689 | Release-dependant filenames for device drivers A method for providing release-dependant filenames for a device driver, by providing Config information and a table of the driver's component files; assigning unique, release-dependant filenames for the component files; and producing the device driver containing the... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8060891 | Management of external hardware appliances in a distributed operating system Embodiments are provided to manage external hardware appliances from a distributed operating system interface in a computer network using a driver model to communicate with device drivers associated with the external hardware appliances. In one embodiment, a request... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8015573 | Input/output device with configuration, fault isolation and redundant fault assist functionality An I/O device is provided for use in a process control system having a controller operating under a particular version of communication software. The I/O device has a storage device for storing a plurality of potential versions of I/O communication software. An I/O ... | 09/06/2011 |
| 7979869 | Method and system for performing I/O operations using a hypervisor A method for installing a device driver for a device in a guest domain, that includes obtaining a first device driver for the device by a hypervisor, installing, by the hypervisor, the first device driver into memory allocated to the guest domain, and notifying an o... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7950022 | Techniques for use with device drivers in a common software environment Described are techniques for facilitating communication between device drivers. A device driver is provided that makes at least one call using an application programming interface. The application programming interface facilitates communication between the device dr... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7945918 | Generalized WBEM/CIM indication provider simulation engine A simulator of WBEM/CIM indication providers conforming to the CIM Indication Provider object specification simulates both the CIM indication provider and the means to drive the associated CIM events. The simulator comprises three functionally unique pieces: one or ... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7945919 | Information processing apparatus and device controller driving/controlling method According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes a system memory, a device controller, a basic input/output system and a device driver. The device driver of the information processing apparatus forms its own data structure for communication ... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7895609 | Method for installing driver software, information processing apparatus that employs the method, computer program for performing the method, and storage medium for storing the computer program An information processing apparatus is directly connected to a local image recording apparatus and connected to network image recording apparatuses through a network. An image recording apparatus searching section searches the local image recording apparatus and the... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7870567 | Configuring a device using information from a device table Provided are a method, system, and program for configuring a device using information from a device table. Device information is obtained for a device coupled to a system. The device information is provided to a device driver executing in the system. The device driv... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7784064 | Method for collecting monitor information A method for collecting information regarding monitors connected to Window-based computer systems. A monitor class definition is established, and a monitor information provider is created. The monitor information provider is loaded on a Windows-based computer, which... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7779427 | Automated application configuration using device-provided data Described is a technology by which a device pre-enables application programs of a computer system to work with the device when the device is connected to the computer system. A set of data is obtained from a device, such as by an installer at installation time. The ... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7774795 | Printer with optional device control A printer receives image information from a host computer and performs printing based on the image information. When an optional unit is newly attached to the printer, the printer changes the device ID which is selected from an ID ROM in accordance with the optional... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7761883 | Mobile terminal apparatus and software install method A software-source monitoring unit monitors a software source that provides software required for using the peripheral device, and stores data pertaining to acquirable software and the software source in a corresponding manner in a memory unit. A peripheral-device mo... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7752635 | System and method for configuring a virtual network interface card A system includes an interface device that executes a driver and a processing device that executes instructions to implement a virtual machine, and to implement a virtual network interface card that is configurable to enable communication between the driver and the ... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7743390 | Driving method of a driverless peripheral device with a cross platform A driving method of a driverless peripheral device with a cross platform overcomes the inconveniences faced by users of prior art in having to install a driver and/or an application program when a peripheral device is connected with their computer. The present inven... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7739692 | Minimizing the dependency of source code on the in-band resources of a set-top box The present invention is directed to minimizing the dependency of source code on the characteristics of a set-top box's in-band (streaming video or audio) hardware. The set-top box software consists of a device driver layer, which is intimately aware of hardware cha... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7707590 | Computer system and method for providing robust file system information for non-native file system devices An embodiment of the invention is directed to providing robust file system information for non-native devices. In operation, a file system includes both a file storage area for providing access to the contents of files, and a metadata store. The metadata store store... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7681205 | Connection monitoring and driver management method and apparatus and program therefor Disclosed is a driver managing method using a driver managing apparatus for managing a driver corresponding to an output device connected through a network. The driver managing apparatus monitors change in a network environment including the presence or absence of a... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7640554 | Method for installing a printer driver and computer-readable medium storing installation program One of the printer drivers is selected from multiple printer drivers stored in a recording medium by referring to regional information set in the computer in advance and in accordance with the referred regional information. The selected printer driver is to be insta... | 12/29/2009 |
| 7496931 | Portable memory storage devices containing public context application layers A portable media storage device may include layers permitting applications to be used at a connected computing device, those systems optionally including drivers for operating a public context layered computing environment or a driver installation program. Also disc... | 02/24/2009 |
| 7444503 | Method and apparatus for delivering device drivers A method and apparatus for delivering a device driver to an operating system without user intervention. One or more operating systems (e.g., different operating system programs, different versions of one operating system) execute on a computer platform. During booti... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7437443 | Administering devices with domain state objects Exemplary embodiments of the present invention include a method for administering devices. Such exemplary embodiments include receiving a domain state object, identifying an action in dependence upon the domain state object, and executing the action. In many exempla... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7437477 | SCSI-based storage area network having a SCSI router that routes traffic between SCSI and IP networks A system and method for accessing Storage Area Networks over an IP network. A SCSI request is generated and encapsulated in one or more IP packets. The encapsulated SCSI request is routed over an IP network and received by a storage router. The storage router extrac... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7434232 | System and method for writing to a drive when an application lacks administrator privileges A system and method are provided which enable a user of a computer application without administrator privileges to write to a drive without using a third party driver and without using a customized driver acting in conjunction with an IDE bus. The system includes a ... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7433938 | Coupling a filter graph space to a network driver space A communication path is established that allows for communication between a filter graph space and a network driver space in a system. The communication path allows bidirectional communication between a filter graph driver in the filter graph space and a network dri... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7433937 | Coupling a filter graph space to a network driver space A communication path is established that allows for communication between a filter graph space and a network driver space in a system. The communication path allows bi-directional communication between a filter graph driver in the filter graph space and a network dr... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7430745 | Information processing apparatus, method of controlling the same, program, and recording medium If a new device object matching at least a portion of device information concerning a device of an existing device object is detected, the device information of the existing device object is acquired, and the existing device object is deleted. Device information of ... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7424710 | TCP/IP offloading for virtual machines An engine (TOE) is provided in a virtualized computer system for offloading I/O tasks using any defined protocol such as TCP/IP. The system includes a virtual machine (VM), which has a guest operating system (OS) that runs via a virtual machine monitor (VMM) on a sy... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7421711 | System, method and apparatus for supporting a kernel mode driver An invention is disclosed that provides a set of common software routines that may be accessed by device drivers in support of the Windows Management Instrumentation system. The set of common routines includes typical routines that would ordinarily be executed by de... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7421712 | Driverless printing A method of creating a peripheral driver for a particular peripheral by learning the peripheral options and the commands for those options from the peripheral itself. The computer access a specified location in the memory of the peripheral which contains either a ge... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7418716 | Method, apparatus, system, and article of manufacture for interfacing a device Provided are a method, apparatus, system, and article of manufacture for interfacing a device to a host, wherein in certain embodiments a device interface in the device receives a request generated by a device driver in the host. The device interface processes the r... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7415545 | Method and apparatus for dynamic link driver configuration A method and apparatus embodied in transaction layer software suitable for use with serial bus devices, such as IEEE standard 1394 serial bus devices for supporting multiple link device drivers. The invention acquires or otherwise ascertains the capabilities of link... | 08/19/2008 |
