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Thorsten Stephan

Claudius Fischer

Markus Schmidt-Karaca

Franz Müller

Markus Schmidt

Sven Bernhard

Jochen Hertweck

Janusz Smilek

Helmut Mueller

Jochen Saterdag

The present invention provides a method and system for remote configuration of heterogeneous network devices from a centralized location.

Method and system for remote configuration of network devices

A method and system to access native drivers in a computer using a generic application interface. An embodiment of the method may include providing the generic application interface to allow access to multiple peripheral devices, where the interface is independent of the device-specific features of the peripheral devices. The interface may include generic routines commonly shared by the peripheral devices. The method may further include using the interface to call the generic routines as a function of device-specific features of a particular device upon receipt of a request to access the particular device. The method provides a generic API that may be commonly used by a plurality of applications on a computer or a plurality of computers in a network to access a plurality of peripheral devices. As such, the developer or user may port applications based on the generic API between different computers without making modifications to the applications. Exemplary applications include mobile devices in wireless communication with network peripheral devices.

Generic application program interface for native drivers

A method and system to make data persistent in data storage using a generic application interface. An embodiment of the method may include providing the generic data persistence interface to store data independent of data storage mechanisms. The interface may include generic routines commonly shared by the data storage mechanisms. The method may further include calling the generic routines as a function of a particular data storage mechanism upon receiving an request and executing the called routines. The interface provides a unique identifier associated with the data to store with the data in persistent storage. Exemplary applications include persistent file storage and persistent JDBC database storage.

Generic data persistence application program interface

A process for synchronizing data between a remotely located device, such as a personal digital assistant, Internet-enabled phone, handheld computer, laptop or desktop computer, and a central computer system. The data may be related to offline applications running on the device.

Process for synchronizing data between remotely located devices and a central computer system

A device, such as a personal digital assistant, Internet enabled phone, handheld computer, laptop computer or desktop computer, being capable of running business applications online or offline and of synchronizing data related to such applications with a central computer system. The device also being able to receive deployed software and install it and to deinstall unwanted software automatically.

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Heidelberg, Germany

Thorsten Stephan