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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 10, 1999
Filed:
Mar. 28, 1997
Masahiko Shinomura, Machida, JP;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A superior method for automatically enabling a PC card whereby, when a PC card that can be driven only by a DOS/Windows 3.x device driver is inserted, the PC card is enabled by that device driver, and whereby, when a PC card is inserted that can be driven by a Windows 95 native mode device driver, the PC card is enabled by that device driver. In one form the invention is directed to a method, for automatically enabling a PC card, that can be applied to an information processing system that is controlled by an operating system having either a 32-bit mode or a 16-bit mode, and that have a plurality of device drivers for both a 32-bit mode and a 16-bit mode, comprises the steps of: (a) detecting an insertion event when a PC card is inserted into the information processing system; (b) giving priority, in response to the insertion event, to the device driver of the 16-bit mode in enabling the PC card; and (c) giving chance, in response to the insertion event, to the device driver of the 32-bit mode in enabling the PC card if the PC card is not enabled by the device driver of the 16-bit mode. In another form the invention is directed to a computer implemented program operable to practice the aforementioned method.
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