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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:
Jun. 22, 2004
Filed:
Feb. 02, 2001
Applicant:
Inventor:
Takeshi Kato, Kawasaki, JP;
Assignee:
Minolta Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/300 ; G06F 1/700 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/300 ; G06F 1/700 ;
Abstract
In a system comprising a host device and at least one peripheral device connected to the host device, suitable firmware to allow combined operation of both devices is selected and downloaded from among a plurality of firmware stored in memory using the identification codes of each device. As a result, devices which heretofore were incompatible can operation in combination. Furthermore, functions previously unavailable can be used.