The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document.
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:
Feb. 05, 2002
Filed:
Jan. 25, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Inventec Corporation, Taipei, TW;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/314 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/314 ;
Abstract
The present invention relates to a setting method for installation of plug and play device by utilizing the set-up file (INF) of a hardware driver to directly read the device ID of a new device and copy the driver file to the corresponding directory. And, deleting the device ID and all related device class of the original device. Then, while the computer being restarted the Windows system will display that the new device is found and will automatically establish the relationship between the new device and the previously installed driver through the new device ID and class in order to let the new device be operated normally.