Device presenting information about resource location of device control software
AssigneeSeiko Epson Corporation
InventorsToshihiro Shima, Kazuhito Gassho
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Abstract
The invention enables to readily download device control software to control device. Once receiving a request from a client PC through a HTTP communication module 10, a printer PT identifies an OS used by the client PC from an environment variable attached to the request through an OS identification module 11. A driver location search module 11 searches a location address of a printer driver corresponding to the identified OS from a driver location database 12. A HTML generation module 14 generates a Web page in which a link to this location address is described and then informs the client PC of it as response via the HTTP communication module 10.
Claims9
A device used in connection with a network, said device comprising:
- a communication unit configured to communicate with a client via said network;
- an identification unit configured to input OS information representing an operating system installed in said client to identify a type of said operating system used in said client;
- a search unit configured to search a storage location on said network of device control software, which corresponds to said identified type of said operating system and controls said device, from a database in which specifications of operating systems and storage locations of device control software are recorded in association with each other;
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- an information unit configured to inform said client of said searched storage location of said device control software.
A device used in connection with a network, said device comprising:
- a storage unit configured to store an URL for download corresponding to a Web page which provides device control software to control said device on The Internet;
- a HTTP communication unit configured to generate a markup language file including a link to said URL for download and to send said markup language file back to a client through a HTTP response in response to a HTTP request from said client.
A method for informing a client of a storage location on a network of device control software to control a device, wherein said device communicates with said client via said network, said method comprising:
- inputting OS information representing an operating system installed in said client from said client to identify a type of said operating system used by said client;
- searching a storage location on said network of device control software corresponding to said identified type of said operating system from a database in which specifications of operating systems and storage locations of device control software are recorded in association with each other;
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- informing said client of said searched storage location of said device control software.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.