Patent ID: 9578108
Date: 2017-02-21
CPC Classifications: G06F,H04L

Claim:
1. A method, comprising: providing an identifier that identifies a data source, the identifier comprising an identifier of a class of the data source, and at least one of a library or an application of the data source that implements a driver interface to access the data source; using the identifier, by a driver executing on a computer, to access an implementation of the driver interface of the data source; providing control to the implementation, by the driver, to access connection settings; generating, by the implementation of the driver interface, a connection string based at least on the connection settings; receiving, by the driver executing on the computer, the connection string with the identifier from the implementation of the driver interface to the driver; and forwarding the connection string from the driver to a driver manager managing a client; wherein the library or application is component object model (COM)-based.