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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 25, 2000
Filed:
Sep. 18, 1997
Yoshimi Tachibana, Tokyo, JP;
Naoki Ueda, Tokyo, JP;
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Kawasaki, JP;
Abstract
A utility program previously registers card/program registration information indicating a correspondence relation between the names of various cards and file names of various application programs used for effecting processes for the respective cards into a registry of an OS. The utility program acquires information indicating data of insertion/removal and the name of an expansion card inserted into or removed from a card slot by referring to device information held in the registry. The utility program derives a file name of an application program corresponding to the acquired name of the expansion card by referring to the card/program registration information registered in the registry and requesting the OS to start the application program when the data of insertion/removal indicates the insertion.