Peer-to-Patent, the USPTO's pilot program for public participation in the review of patent applications, has posted a new application for you to review at www.peertopatent.org!
A patent application from Sun Microsystems is now available for public review here. The application (Application #11/329656; Publication #20070162625) relates to the delivery of a device driver to an operating system without user intervention. While most computer platform operating systems are configured with device drivers for all devices installed in the computer platform when it was purchased or delivered, if a newer driver becomes available after the platform is delivered, the owner may need to download or install the driver from diskette, across a network, etc. This makes it difficult to execute an old operating system on a new computer platform because the operating system will generally not be configured with drivers for controlling all components of the new platform.
Because there is no readily available method or scheme for automatically updating an old operating system with the drivers needed for a new computer platform (i.e. the driver was not available when the operating system was originally released), this application describes a method and apparatus whereby a device is identified (during the boot phase of an operating system) for which a driver is needed and the driver is then requested from a service processor of the computer platform, retrieved, and delivered to the operating system.
A patent application from Sun Microsystems is now available for public review here. The application (Application #11/329656; Publication #20070162625) relates to the delivery of a device driver to an operating system without user intervention. While most computer platform operating systems are configured with device drivers for all devices installed in the computer platform when it was purchased or delivered, if a newer driver becomes available after the platform is delivered, the owner may need to download or install the driver from diskette, across a network, etc. This makes it difficult to execute an old operating system on a new computer platform because the operating system will generally not be configured with drivers for controlling all components of the new platform.
Because there is no readily available method or scheme for automatically updating an old operating system with the drivers needed for a new computer platform (i.e. the driver was not available when the operating system was originally released), this application describes a method and apparatus whereby a device is identified (during the boot phase of an operating system) for which a driver is needed and the driver is then requested from a service processor of the computer platform, retrieved, and delivered to the operating system.
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