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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 07, 2007
Filed:
May. 05, 2003
Oren Rosenbloom, Redmond, WA (US);
Lyman Cooper Partin, Bellevue, WA (US);
Oren Rosenbloom, Redmond, WA (US);
Lyman Cooper Partin, Bellevue, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A computer-implemented method and system useful in creating a device driver of a different architecture, based upon an existing driver of an original architecture. Information concerning an existing device driver is gathered. This information is stored for use by a transformation engine. The transformation engine maps information from the existing driver architecture to a new driver architecture. The transformation engine is used to obtain a description of the old driver in a format specific to the new driver architecture. A source code generation engine then converts the information obtained from the transformation engine into a new driver application layer. Given the base driver with the application layer already developed, a device provider or other driver creator can develop the device protocol layer for the driver.