Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Albert Leon Ting

Amanda Giang-Tien Nguyen

Khaled Salah Sedky

Tali Roth

Feng Yue

Robert Orleth

Mikael P Horal

Timothy J Lytle

Emil G Antonov

A network peripheral device driver maintenance framework and corresponding method is disclosed. The framework includes a driver version identification level comprising a set of driver version descriptions. Each driver version comprises a set of component versions that make upon each particular driver version. A driver component level, under the driver version identification level, comprises uniquely identified component versions (containers) comprising sets of driver files that make up the component versions identified by the driver versions. A method for maintaining multiple simultaneously active networked peripheral device drivers is disclosed. The method includes storing a new driver on the machine in a manner including the following steps performed by a machine. Initially, the machine establishes, within a directory structure, a container for storing a set of driver files constituting a version of a driver component. A unique identifier name is assigned to the new container. A set of driver files associated with the component version is inserted within the container.

Peripheral device driver maintenance scheme for networked peripheral device clients

A print architecture, including a print manager interposed between an application and a set of installed filters that complete features associated with submitted print jobs, includes an integrated data tree that stores a composite of the features and printer personalities supported by the print system including the installed filters. Properties/behaviors of components of the print architecture, including installed print filters and job tickets, are specified in accordance with an XML-based print schema. A print manager interface facilitates parsing and incorporating feature completion capabilities supported by the installed filters. A capabilities interface presents the features supported by the filters, organized in the form of feature descriptors. In addition to designating feature properties, the feature descriptors designate an order in which a print request is passed through ones of the installed filters to complete the features identified in a print job ticket derived from the feature properties of the feature descriptor.

Print management architecture for computing devices having a set of filters functions wherein the functions are prevented from conflicting with one another

The present invention is a system and method for providing distributed seamless, fault tolerant and reliable solutions for imaging devices through creating virtual imaging servers and virtual connections to network imaging devices. This invention provides imaging job routing, job balancing, continuous service availability, simplified imaging device administration and the transparency of imaging device locations and name on a network by employing a hierarchical schema which defines and describes imaging devices, servers and imaging jobs.

System and method for distributed imaging

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Albert Leon Ting