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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 30, 2003
Filed:
Mar. 07, 2001
Brett Williams, Roseville, CA (US);
Richard Kunze, Roseville, CA (US);
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
A method for locating and installing peripheral drivers has steps of creating a driver profile, creating a resources profile, and of looking to potential driver sources on a prioritized list for drivers that match the driver profile. The driver profile may comprise information such as the peripheral model number, the operating system version number, and the operating system language determined through automated queries. The resources profile generally describes the resources available to the operating system in terms of access to the potential driver sources on the list, and may be used to eliminate sources from the list that are not accessible. The remaining sources on the list are checked in descending priority order until a driver matching the driver profile is found. Once a matching driver is found, it is installed on the operating system.