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Text based markup language resource interface

  • US 7,503,002 B2
  • Filed: 11/09/2006
  • Issued: 03/10/2009
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/08/1999
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A method for interacting with a computer to install device sdrivers, the method comprising:

  • presenting via a computer a graphical representation of a text markup language document providing control for installation of device drivers for the computer to a user, wherein the graphical representation includes at least one interactive user control for activating a text hyperlink and wherein the hyperlink is automatically created and dynamically updated based on hardware installed on the computer, an operating system under which the graphical representation and hyperlink are operating, and configuration settings of the computer;

    receiving an activated hypertext link from the user, wherein the hypertext link is associated with hypertext link attributes by the text markup language document comprising a target and a uniform resource locator;

    determining in the computer whether the target is a request to load a device driver;

    extracting in the computer a device identification and an operating system when the target is the request to load the device driver;

    searching an initialization file for a reference to the device identification and the operating system;

    automatically copying device related files into file directories referenced by the operating system; and

    merging device related files into the operating system registry; and

    when the target is not the request to load the device driver, performing at least one of,automatically obtaining and passing device identifier data corresponding to the computer to obtain a resource matching the computer; and

    automatically executing one or more patch programs in a queue of the patch programs and wherein patch programs are removed from the queue after execution and wherein the computer is rebooted after each execution.

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