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Device driver installing program and device driver installing apparatus

  • US 20040010795A1
  • Filed: 01/28/2003
  • Published: 01/15/2004
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/12/2002
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A device driver installing program which operates in a server connected with a client via a network, for realizing in said server:

  • a first program transferring function for transferring, to said client when the client is started, a program that is recorded and held in the server, for realizing functions in said client for;

    obtaining product name information about the client;

    querying the server about device information adapted to hardware specified by said product name information with the obtained product name information as a parameter; and

    dynamically installing device drivers necessary for the client from the server into the client, based on the device information returned from the server, and a first device information returning function for returning the device information adapted to the hardware specified by said product name information to the client, when said device information is queried to the server.

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