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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 05, 2015
Filed:
Dec. 30, 2003
Martin Finnerty, Moraga, CA (US);
Ming-tao Liou, Fremont, CA (US);
Blair T. Wheadon, North Vancouver, CA;
Xia Liu, Belmont, CA (US);
Ying-chieh Lan, Foster City, CA (US);
Martin Finnerty, Moraga, CA (US);
Ming-Tao Liou, Fremont, CA (US);
Blair T. Wheadon, North Vancouver, CA;
Xia Liu, Belmont, CA (US);
Ying-Chieh Lan, Foster City, CA (US);
Siebel Systems, Inc., San Mateo, CA (US);
Abstract
A method, system, application programming interface, and computer program product that enable enterprise data management application programs to request input/output services from a device manager controlling devices. The device manager operates in a heterogeneous environment including incompatible devices provided by multiple vendors. These requests, and responses from the device manager to the enterprise data management application program, are communicated in a markup language format, rather than in a device-specific native language. This structure enables the vendor of the enterprise data management application program to send requests for services, including both data and instructions to use specialized features of a device, without the need to change the enterprise data management application program to support device-specific native languages.