Method for controlling a data processing device
AssigneeWIBU-Systems AG
InventorsOliver Winzenried, Marcellus Buchheit, Ralf Fust
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Abstract
A method for controlling a data processing device connected to a computer via an interface wherein a device specific command is generated on the computer by an application program, the command is stored in a special file and is then transmitted by the computer to the device with the aid of a write instruction of the computer operating system. The special file is received by the device, the device specific command is read out from the special file and the device processor executes the command. The method allows the device processor to execute a device specific command exclusively using the write instruction of the computer's own operating system without requiring particular administrator rights.
Claims20
1-8. (canceled)
A method for controlling a data processing device having a processor, which is connected to a computer via an interface, comprising generating a device specific command by an application program on the computer;
- and
- characterized by the following steps:
- storing the command in a special file;
- transmitting the special file from the computer to the device by means of the write command of the operating system of the computer;
- receiving the special file by the device;
- reading the device specific command from the special file;
- and
- executing the device specific command read from the special file by the processor of the device.
A system for controlling a data processing device, comprising a computer with an operating system and a data processing device with a processor, which is connected to the computer via an interface, characterized in that:
- a device specific command is generated by an application program on the computer and the command is stored in a special file on the computer;
- the special file is transmitted to the connected device via the interface of the computer using the write command of the operating system of the computer;
- the device is designed for receiving the special file and for reading the device specific command from the special file;
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- the processor of the device executes the read specific command.
A device for executing a device specific command generated on a computer, with an interface for connecting to a computer, on which an application program generates the device specific command and stores it in a special file, and with a processor, characterized in that after receiving the special file, which is transmitted to the device by means of the write command of the operating system of the computer, via the interface of the computer, the device reads the device specific command from the special file;
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- the processor of the device executes the read device specific command.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.