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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 14, 2015
Filed:
Dec. 31, 2012
Vce Company, Llc, Marlborough, MA (US);
Rajesh Nandyalam, Whitinsville, MA (US);
Venkatesh Madhipatla, Westford, MA (US);
Neil Russell, Burlington, MA (US);
Victor Zhang, Plano, TX (US);
VCE Company, LLC, Richardson, TX (US);
Abstract
An improved technique for communicating with components of an electronic system includes operating a driver according to a designated protocol but agnostically to the components themselves. Information about particular system components is supplied to the driver by respective data sources. To obtain discovery information about a component, the driver accesses a data source for the component and communicates with the component using the designated protocol. The driver thus operates merely as a conduit for component-specific information, which is supplied by the data sources rather than by the driver itself.