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Electrical Computers And Digital Processing Systems: Interprogram Communication Or Interprocess Communication (ipc) > Device Driver Communication Device Driver CommunicationDevice Driver Communication patent applications listed are from June 2005 to current and include Date, Patent Application Number, Patent Title, Patent Abstract summary and are linked to the corresponding patent application page.10/18/07 - 20070245360 - Portable networking interface method and apparatus for distributed switching system An apparatus and method to provide a portable networking interface for distributed switching systems. Two Application Program Interfaces (APIs) are defined for communication to a Forwarding Database Distribution Library (FDDL). The FDDL sits between network client applications and the switch device driver in order to provide a uniform interface to ... 10/18/07 - 20070245358 - Web installer driver An improved system and method for installing a printer driver on a remote information terminal through a network are provided. A method for providing a network-based driver management service is also provided. ... 09/13/07 - 20070214461 - System and method for transparently processing multimedia data A multimedia data processing system and method which transparently processes video and/or audio streams in real-time. The operation of a system in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention does not require any intervention from, or involvement of, either the producer of the video and/or audio stream, or the ... 08/30/07 - 20070204278 - Driver services publication Described is a system and method for determining a driver method including an identification of the driver method, searching a plurality of instantiated drivers for the identification of the driver method, wherein each of the instantiated drivers publish methods offered by the instantiated driver, each method including the identification and ... 08/23/07 - 20070198995 - System and method for automated delivery of software The present invention discloses system and method for delivery of software from a device to a host system, with the software enabling the host system to communicate with the device. The method of the present invention uses an electronic component/storage device associated with the device (or provides one if none ... 08/16/07 - 20070192771 - Aggregate drivers for a configurable media-independent server One or more third party channel drivers interface with a centralized communication application server. An aggregate channel driver (ACD) is included in a channel driver to implement commands and command parameters that are supported by a particular core channel driver (CCD), but not by the communication server. The ACD can ... 07/26/07 - 20070174849 - Non-disruptive multipath device driver update system and method A non-disruptive multipath device driver update system and method are provided. An additional layer device driver is provided between applications running on host system and the multipath device driver such that when an upgrade or update operation is performed on a multipath device driver, the layer device driver redirects I/O ... 07/26/07 - 20070174848 - Agentive representation in mobile services A computer having a software agent for representing a person in the virtual environment. The software agent has one or more application specific modules each of which represents application specific features of the agent. In addition, the agent has a core module which contains one or more functional groups which ... 06/07/07 - 20070130573 - Loss of universal serial bus communication Triggers are developed for indicating the presence of non-recoverable and/or recoverable loss of communication situations between a device and device driver software using universal serial bus (USB) protocol. We modify the firmware at the device in order to monitor for the triggers and control the device in specified ways once ... 05/03/07 - 20070101345 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program thereof According to this invention, an information processing apparatus connected to a peripheral device, includes: a reception unit adapted to receive a network leaving message from the peripheral device; a first determination unit adapted to determine if a device driver corresponding to the peripheral device as a source of the network ... 05/03/07 - 20070101344 - Callbacks for monitoring driver-level statistics Callbacks can be used to allow applications to register a callback which can be implemented before, after or upon an exception within a method of a JDBC driver. ... 05/03/07 - 20070101343 - Rebootless display driver upgrades Systems and methods for rebootless updating of a IHV display driver are disclosed. According to such a method, first, the operating system stops the driver from running. Second, the system switches over to an interim or temporary display driver, which be a default driver provided with the operating system. Third, ... 05/03/07 - 20070101342 - Automated device driver management Techniques for importing, managing, and deploying drivers are provided. When a machine is being re-imaged, a process on the machine scans for hardware devices on the machine and generates a list of hardware device IDs and compatible hardware device IDs for each scanned hardware device. The process then formulates a ... 04/26/07 - 20070094673 - Configuration of isolated extensions and device drivers Described herein are one or more implementations for describing and/or addressing the configuration requirements of applications, extensions, device drivers, and other components of a software system. ... 04/12/07 - 20070083873 - Dynamic bus-based virtual channel multiplexing device driver architecture Dynamic bus-based virtual channel multiplexing may be accomplished by establishing one or more virtual channels with a multiplexing device function driver and a multifunction device coupled to a bus, determining one or more functions to be activated on the device, and for each activated function, launching a second-tier function driver ... 03/29/07 - 20070074226 - Systems and methods for device driver isolation Systems and methods are described herein to provide for device driver isolation from a host operating system on a computing device. Other embodiments include apparatus and system for control of two or more virtual machines, each of the virtual machines isolated from all other virtual machines. Further embodiments include methods ... 02/22/07 - 20070044108 - Method and system for managing bandwidth in a virtualized system A method of improving USB device virtualization to prevent bus bandwidth from being over allocated when isochronous USB devices are attached to multiple virtual machines by attaching a dummy device to each virtual machine which will mimic the bandwidth reservations made by real devices in other virtual machines, thus allowing ... 01/25/07 - 20070022431 - Method for executing computer programs in accordance with preset execution priority A method for executing computer programs in accordance with a preset priority is provided. The method is applicable to a computer system connecting to a data storage, a plurality of device selection buttons, and a plurality of multimedia players. The data storage is installed with a plurality of device drivers, ... 01/18/07 - 20070016913 - Computer device driver and method of operation A computer device driver comprises a computer operating system including a structure configured to communicate with a device driver interface using a predefined protocol, and a device including a memory storing an embedded driver with device information. In one aspect, the memory is configured to store physical information and functional ... 11/23/06 - 20060265718 - Injection-based simulation for button automation on button-aware computing platforms A methodology for simulating the pressing and releasing of hardware buttons on a computing device is described. Actual hardware button signals are injected at a low level in a system stack, and the data resulting from those signals propagates naturally through the system and are processed and formatted in the ... 11/09/06 - 20060253859 - Protocol for communication with a user-mode device driver A user-mode device driver architecture is provided by the subject invention. The architecture includes a reflector, a driver manager and a host process which hosts and isolates one or more user-mode device driver(s). The user-mode device driver runs in the user-mode (UM) environment and has access to various UM services. ... 11/02/06 - 20060248542 - Method and system for monitoring and verifying software drivers A method and system for verifying computer system drivers such as kernel mode drivers. A driver verifier sets up tests for specified drivers and monitors the driver's behavior for selected violations that cause system crashes. In one test, the driver verifier allocates a driver's memory pool allocations from a special ... 11/02/06 - 20060248541 - Universal driver server This invention involves using an alternative driver that is located in a specified server on the Internet. For example, a person could take a floppy disk that is not compatible with their computer and transform it over the Internet through an alternate compatible driver. In order to do this, a ... 11/02/06 - 20060248540 - Automatic source code generation A data processing device comprising a first generation unit for generating, based on generic data defining a functional interface of an apparatus in general terms, a formalized description of the functional interface of the apparatus, and a second generation unit for generating, based on the formalized description, source code for ... 10/05/06 - 20060225081 - Method for managing a peripheral and computer system using same The invention concerns a method for managing a peripheral enabling direct transmission by the source equipment (1), through a network interface (10), without their being treated by a peripheral pilot, data (2) written in a content description language. The peripheral (3) interprets the data reviewed by a network interface (11) ... 09/14/06 - 20060206904 - Systems and methods for supporting device access from multiple operating systems A host operating system can take ownership of a device. The host can project the presence of a device proxy (VDP) into a guest operating system. The VDP provides a set of device functions corresponding to the particular device class. Interactions with the VDP in the guest are forwarded to ... 07/20/06 - 20060161926 - Method and apparatus interfacing for querying a device between an application and a library of a master on home network The present invention relates to method and apparatus for interfacing for querying a device between various applications operated on a home network and a library to ensure their compatibility. In a method for querying a device on a home network according to the present invention, a control application calls a ... 06/15/06 - 20060130073 - System configuration and process in a control system for identifying nonequivalent functionality between the software of a device and the assigned device driver The invention relates to a process in a control system for identifying nonequivalent functionality between a device software and an assigned device driver, in which information (TR-ID) identifying a given version of the device driver and/or information (SW-ID) identifying a given version of the device software is transmitted between a ... 06/15/06 - 20060130072 - Extensible architecture for auxiliary displays Described is a system and method by which an auxiliary computing device having an auxiliary display platform that displays information corresponding to data that originated on the main computer system may be extended by a device manufacturer. Extended hardware is added to the device, such as a radio receiver and/or ... 06/01/06 - 20060117325 - System and method for interrupt handling A system, methodology and/or computer architecture that facilitates processing device interrupts (including level-triggered interrupts) in a user-mode process is provided. The kernel interrupt handler can cause a dedicated thread in the process to wake and invoke the driver interrupt service routine. This thread can then return control to the kernel ... 03/30/06 - 20060070089 - Method and apparatus for dynamic replacement of device drivers in the operating system (os) kernel A method and apparatus for dynamic replacement of device drivers in the operating system (OS) kernel are described. In one embodiment, the method comprising receiving a request to add a device driver to an operating system and dynamically adding the device driver to the operating system while user application and ... 02/16/06 - 20060037028 - Bluetooth tdi and winsock interface A method, apparatus, and computer program product provide applications and application developers with generic access from user mode to the L2CAP layer of Bluetooth by exposing the L2CAP layer to user mode via a socket interface. In particular, a kernel mode primary component and user mode helper component cooperate to ... 02/02/06 - 20060026602 - Application with multiple embedded drivers Various systems, methods, and programs embodied in computer-readable mediums are provided for driver execution in association with an application. When an application is executed in a computer system, a processor compatibility of an operating system executed in the computer system is determined. In this respect, the operating system is compatible ... 11/17/05 - 20050257225 - Office automation device and method of installing, reinstalling, and upgrading a driver thereof An office automation (OA) device and methods of installing, reinstalling, and upgrading a driver of the OA device. The OA device includes a class information storage unit to store class information based on which a host device identifies the OA device and to output class information when being accessed by ... 11/03/05 - 20050246724 - Systems and methods for support of various processing capabilities Systems and methods are described for support of various computing device and target entity capabilities. In an implementation, a method includes determining one or more processing capabilities of a computing device to process data for rendering by a rendering device. A selection is made, based on the determining, of one ... 11/03/05 - 20050246723 - Generic usb drivers Techniques are disclosed to provide generic USB drivers. More particularly, a generic USB device driver architecture is described which enables development through a user-mode USB library that accesses a generic kernel-mode driver. In a described implementation, a method includes loading a kernel-mode generic device driver in response to a plug-in ... 11/03/05 - 20050246722 - System and method for validating communication specification conformance between a device driver and a hardware device A system and method for validating whether communications between a device driver and a hardware device conform to a communication specification is presented. A validation module obtains a communication specification identifying rules for validating whether communications between a device driver and a hardware device conform to the specification. A redirection ... 10/27/05 - 20050240942 - Method and apparatus for managing related drivers associated with a virtual bus driver The disclosed embodiments relate to an apparatus and method for managing related drivers associated with a bus driver. In one embodiment, the apparatus may comprise a physical device object table adapted to contain a plurality of entries, a child device associated with each of the plurality of entries, each of ... 10/27/05 - 20050240941 - Method, system, and program for executing data transfer requests Provided are a method, system, and program for transferring data between an initiator node and target node. A request is received conforming to a first data transfer protocol at the initiator node to transmit to the target node. A reference to a memory location is obtained to use to transfer ... 10/13/05 - 20050229187 - Contents data processing device and method It is difficult to implement an arrangement for handling of contents data such as moving picture and audio data because of a need to ensure the desired bit rate, etc. In ordinary cases, therefore, a configuration dependent on hardware results and the portability of the system is low. A layered ... 10/06/05 - 20050223390 - 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 generic peripheral description file or a pointer to ... 10/06/05 - 20050223389 - Method and system for remote browsing of computer files using a bar code reader A method of integrating host application software with data collection devices (e.g., bar code scanners) located on remote, wireless terminals. A data collection object executes on the host computer, using a predetermined interface between the host application software and the data collection object. That interface, and the communications between the ... 10/06/05 - 20050223388 - System and method for implementing multiple instantiated configurable peripherals in a circuit design A reusable software block is adapted to control multiple instantiations of a peripheral device within a system. A device hardware abstraction layer defines offset values for registers of the peripheral device and a data structure for the peripheral device. A platform hardware abstraction layer defines an address map of the ... 10/06/05 - 20050223387 - Enhanced input using packet switching over a ps/2 or other interface A designated byte of a PS/2 packet is used for data not recognized by a conventional PS/2 port driver. Each packet byte received by the conventional port driver is read by an Interrupt Service Routine (ISR) of a filter driver. If a received packet contains an unrecognized data type, that ... 09/22/05 - 20050210480 - Driver management method and apparatus and program therefor A driver managing method using a driver managing apparatus for managing a driver corresponding to an output device connected through a network, comprising: monitoring a change in a network environment including the presence or absence of a connection to the network; and detecting the output device connected to the network ... 09/22/05 - 20050210479 - Network device driver architecture The invention proposes a network device driver architecture with functionality distributed between kernel space and user space. The overall network device driver comprises a kernel-space device driver (10) and user-space device driver functionality (20). The kernel-space device driver (10) is adapted for enabling access to the user-space device driver functionality ... 09/15/05 - 20050204365 - Device for driving recording head and recording apparatus A device for driving a recording head comprises select data input elements, a waveform signal selector, and a drive signal supplier. To the select data input elements, select data sets corresponding to recording elements included in the recording head are inputted in a serial manner. Each one of the select ... 09/15/05 - 20050204364 - Storage device In order to connect the disk control logic unit 49 and disk drive unit 1, a 2-port control signal cable (571, 57n), which has a constitution in which two port control signal cables (port control signal cable 56 and port control signal cable 58, port control signal cable 60 and ... 09/15/05 - 20050204363 - Unattended installation of drivers for devices that are not automatically found and installed during operating system installation The unattended installation of drivers for devices that are not automatically found and installed during operating system installation is disclosed. A method determines which drivers are needed for devices on client computing systems that are not automatically found and installed during operating system installation. Entries for the drivers are created ... 09/08/05 - 20050198650 - 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 instructions are executable to initiate execution of a particular device function that ... 08/25/05 - 20050188381 - Method for controlling installation of software and program for executing the method A method, apparatus and computer program product for controlling the installation of device driver software which is executed on computerThe method includes the step of displaying an installation procedure for the device driver softwareand installing the driver softwareonto the computer. ... 08/18/05 - 20050183095 - Information processing apparatus, method for controlling information processing apparatus, and strorage medium storing program for realizing the method A control method for an information processing apparatus which can be loaded with a device driver includes an installing step of installing a device driver, a determining step of determining whether or not a control program in the information processing apparatus is to be rebooted when the device driver is ... 07/28/05 - 20050166214 - System and method for managing graphics applications A system and method for managing graphics applications include the capability to manage the conveyance of graphics data from an aware graphics application to a plurality of graphics pipes and to manage the conveyance of graphics data from an unaware graphics application to a plurality of graphics pipes. The system ... 07/07/05 - 20050149950 - Computer readable recording medium storing printer driver program A computer readable recording medium storing a printer driver program to be installed in a computer in order to use a printer, the printer driver program comprises following processings executed by a computer: a gasping processing for grasping version information of various kinds of printer related programs for executing a ... 07/07/05 - 20050149949 - Methods and systems for managing a network A system and method for managing a plurality of devices is provided. The system includes a user interface for controlling a plurality of devices configured as a network. The plurality of devices have corresponding device drivers to configure each of the plurality of devices to allow queuing operations to be ... 07/07/05 - 20050149948 - System and method for monitoring and managing connection manager activity A connection manager (112) of a communication device (103). The connection manager registers with a device driver (109) associated with a network interface (106, 228), which monitors the communication device for network access data from a third party connection manager (118). After detecting network access data, the device driver notifies ... 07/07/05 - 20050149947 - Driver-specific context for kernel-mode shimming A kernel-mode shimming system and method are disclosed herein. The kernel is a shared environment. Accordingly, many different kernel-mode drivers utilize services provided by the kernel. Furthermore, when shimming of drivers is necessary, it is desirable to support shim reuse amongst drivers with similar problems or issues, rather than generating ... 06/23/05 - 20050138645 - Safe method for upgrading firmware of optical disk product The present invention provides a safe method for upgrading firmware code for optical disk products without corrupting firmware even if an abnormality occurs during a upgrading a firmware process. A nonvolatile memory device of the present invention may store a boot system image and an application ware image separately. End ... 06/23/05 - 20050138644 - 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 request, wherein a plurality of device interfaces ... 06/02/05 - 20050120360 - Rdma completion and retransmit system and method A system and method for maintaining ordering in completion and retransmit operations in an RDMA environment. A system is provided for handling a completion process in an remote data memory access (RDMA) environment having a RequestOut channel and a ResponseOut channel, comprising: a descriptor list for each channel, wherein each ... 06/02/05 - 20050120359 - Computer file system driver control method, program thereof, and program recording medium When a specific file in a file system of an electronic computer (11) is accessed from an application program (4), the access is received in a kernel mode (8) of an OS (3). Then, an access control database (36) comprising filenames in the file system and access methods is referenced ... ### FreshPatents.com Support |