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US 7,065,769 B1Granted
Method for automatically installing and updating drivers
AssigneeIntel Corporation
InventorStephen J. Tolopka
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Abstract
A method comprising automatic installation of device drives in which an operating system or other device installation code obtains a unique identifier from a device, uses that unique identifier to locate a driver for the device, downloads the driver from that location, and completes the installation. Various methods of using the unique identifier to locate the driver are enumerated.
Claims17
A computer-implemented method comprising:
- identifying a device by a unique identifier stored within the device;
- obtaining the unique identifier from the device;
- and
- using the unique identifier in conjunction with a mapping table, wherein the mapping table contains at least a column containing a plurality of unique identifiers of devices coupled to a column containing a plurality of updateable addresses of one or more drivers specific to each device, to obtain an address of one or more drivers for the device, and one or more columns that include additional information specifying a version of the driver to be utilized for the device.
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A machine readable storage medium containing executable program instructions which when executed cause a digital processing system to perform a method comprising:
- identifying a device by a unique identifier stored within the device;
- obtaining the unique identifier from the device;
- and
- using the unique identifier in conjunction with a mapping table, wherein the mapping table contains at least a column containing a plurality of unique identifiers of devices coupled to a column containing a plurality of updateable addresses of one or more drivers specific to each device, to obtain an address of one or more drivers for the device, and one or more columns that include additional information specifying a version of the driver to be utilized for the device.
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A system comprising:
- a processor;
- and
- a memory coupled to the processor comprising a machine-readable medium having a machine-readable program embodied therein for directing operation of the system, the computer-readable program comprising:
- identifying a device by a unique identifier stored within the device;
- obtaining the unique identifier from the device;
- and
- using the unique identifier in conjunction with a mapping table, wherein the mapping table contains at least a column containing a plurality of unique identifiers of devices coupled to a column containing a plurality of updateable addresses of one or more drivers specific to each device, to obtain an address of one or more drivers for the device, and one or more columns that include additional information specifying a version of the driver to be utilized for the device.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.