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US 2005/0097572 A1Published application
Device driver auto-load
AssigneeMicrosoft Corporation
InventorsGeorgios Chrysanthakopoulos, Scott Fierstein
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AssigneeMicrosoft Corporation
InventorsGeorgios Chrysanthakopoulos, Scott Fierstein
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Methods and apparatus are provided for automatically loading drivers on computers for devices coupled to a communication medium such as an IEEE 1394 serial bus. Operating systems running on the computers detect when a device is connected to the communication medium. The operating systems then determine whether one of the drivers stored in memory on the device will enable the computers to utilize the device. The operating systems will then load the appropriate drivers for their respective computers and allow access to the device. If none of the drivers on the memory are suitable for a particular computer, then its operating system will prompt a user to manually insert a computer-readable medium containing the appropriate drivers. Thus, the present invention provides methods and apparatus for automatically loading device drivers.
A method of loading a device driver for an IEEE 1394-enabled device with a non-volatile memory, the device being coupled to a computer via an IEEE 1394-compliant bus, the method comprising the steps of:
A method of loading device drivers for an IEEE 1394-enabled device with a non-volatile memory, the device being coupled, via an IEEE 1394-compliant bus, to a first computer running a first operating system and a second computer running a second operating system, the method comprising the steps of:
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