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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:
Mar. 17, 2015
Filed:
Feb. 24, 2010
Applicants:
Luke Mulcahy, Houston, TX (US);
Gregory P. Ziarnik, Houston, TX (US);
William R. Jacobs, Houston, TX (US);
Inventors:
Luke Mulcahy, Houston, TX (US);
Gregory P. Ziarnik, Houston, TX (US);
William R. Jacobs, Houston, TX (US);
Assignee:
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/00 (2006.01); G06F 9/44 (2006.01); G06F 9/46 (2006.01); G06F 13/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/4415 (2013.01);
Abstract
A device including an interface component configured to couple the device to a computing machine, a storage component configured to store a device driver for the device, and a driver application executed from the storage component and configured to identify the device as a storage device if a device driver has not been loaded onto the computing machine and bad the device driver onto the computing machine in response to the device coupling to the computing machine.