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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 17, 2011
Filed:
Jan. 26, 2007
Christine M. Miyachi, Andover, MA (US);
John Y. Zhang, La Canada, CA (US);
Gerald A. Wedekind, Rancho Palos Verdes, CA (US);
Thomas N. Hastings, Manhattan Beach, CA (US);
Christine M. Miyachi, Andover, MA (US);
John Y. Zhang, La Canada, CA (US);
Gerald A. Wedekind, Rancho Palos Verdes, CA (US);
Thomas N. Hastings, Manhattan Beach, CA (US);
Xerox Corporation, Norwalk, CT (US);
Abstract
A system facilitates communication between a control component and a plurality of processing components. One or more processing components performs one or more tasks, each processing component has at least one attribute associated therewith. One or more attribute banks are associated with each of the one or more processing components, wherein each attribute bank stores the at least one attribute. A control component initiates the one or more tasks for each processing component. A universal driver facilitates communication between the one or more processing components and the control component. The driver includes an interrogation component that queries the one or more processing components to receive the at least one attribute associated with each processing component. A constraint evaluator determines combinations of attributes that are supported and unsupported for each of the one or more processing components. An attribute filter categorizes each attribute combination based at least in part on whether it is supported or unsupported.