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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 21, 2015
Filed:
Jun. 03, 2008
Phuc KY DO, Morrisville, NC (US);
John David Landers, Jr., Raleigh, NC (US);
Phuc Ky Do, Morrisville, NC (US);
John David Landers, Jr., Raleigh, NC (US);
Abstract
A system for automatically determining a configuration of an I/O connector panel is disclosed. The system provides information about the capabilities of the connector card to a memory within the connector card, examining the information in the memory. The system further downloads at least one driver to a system coupled to the I/O connector panel based upon the examined information. The I/O capabilities of a platform (as determined by an I/O panel or other hardware that contains some identification mechanism that defines the I/O capabilities) is within the connector card. This mechanism is then used to determine what software to 'preload' into a system so that as new I/O devices are added in the field, the required software for these devices has already been preloaded.