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Peripheral equipment driving program maintenance method of network peripheral equipment

A technology of drivers and peripheral equipment, applied in transmission systems, program control design, program control devices, etc., can solve problems such as driver mismatch

Inactive Publication Date: 2007-06-20
MICROSOFT TECH LICENSING LLC
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However, if a client can only run one driver version at a time, a driver mismatch can result when the client interacts with two servers running different versions of the same driver

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[0023] By way of example, the invention is embodied in a networked computer system environment including clients, servers, and networked peripherals (such as printers, scanners, etc.), for example, the invention is implemented in a network including a centralized driver package store, storing Operates as a point source for installing peripheral device drivers to requesting clients. The centralized driver package store maintains versions of the complete driver package, including possible multiple driver / versions used by clients networked to communicate with servers for network peripherals.

[0024] Also in an embodiment of the present invention, the integrity of the software package installed in the driver package store is guaranteed. Driver Integrity is achieved by copying the entire set of The filegroup is guaranteed. No attempt is made to eliminate redundant files. Storing all driver-related files completely and indiscriminately in the installed package ensures that when ...

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A network peripheral device driver maintenance framework and corresponding method is disclosed. The framework includes a driver version identification level comprising a set of driver version descriptions. Each driver version comprises a set of component versions that make upon each particular driver version. A driver component level, under the driver version identification level, comprises uniquely identified component versions (containers) comprising sets of driver files that make up the component versions identified by the driver versions. A method for maintaining multiple simultaneously active networked peripheral device drivers is disclosed. The method includes storing a new driver on the machine in a manner including the following steps performed by a machine. Initially, the machine establishes, within a directory structure, a container for storing a set of driver files constituting a version of a driver component. A unique identifier name is assigned to the new container. A set of driver files associated with the component version is inserted within the container

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technical field [0001] The present invention relates generally to networked computer systems. More particularly, the present invention relates to methods and computer system mechanisms for managing networked peripheral clients in a network environment where clients share peripherals (eg, printers, scanners, multifunction peripherals, etc.). Network clients rely on drivers and related driver components loaded locally on the client computer to communicate with shared peripherals. Background technique [0002] A popular and economical method of utilizing printers and other peripherals from an enterprise involving multiple separate users / computers interconnected on a network is to share networked peripherals among multiple separate users / computers. Rather than providing dedicated peripherals for each client computer, the network provides unique inter-machine communication capabilities for networking clients and servers, with peripherals shared among many users. Such sharing ge...

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Patent Type & Authority Patents(China)
IPC IPC(8): G06F3/12G06F13/10G06F9/445G06F13/00H04L29/06
CPCH04L63/0823H04L63/123Y10S707/99954G06F9/44536G06F9/4411G01N21/47G01N21/53
Inventor R·E·奥莱斯E·G·安托诺夫M·P·郝洛尔T·J·莱特尔T·罗斯A·L·汀
Owner MICROSOFT TECH LICENSING LLC