Patent ID: 7934213
Filing Date: 2011-04-26
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A device driver management system comprising: a rollback information data store that stores a plurality of rollback points, at least one of the rollback points identifying one of a plurality of previously installed drivers, at least one of the plurality of previously installed drivers for communicating with two or more devices operably connected to a computing device; a rollback component that provides for receiving a selection of one of the at least one rollback points that identifies the at least one of the plurality of previously installed drivers for communicating with two or more devices, and identifies a restore point used in reverting said two or more devices associated with the restore point to respective previously installed drivers, and in response to said selection reconfiguring the computing device from using a current driver for communicating with the two or more devices to using the previously installed driver identified by the selected rollback point for communicating with the two or more devices; and a computer-readable storage medium comprising the rollback information data store and comprising codes for causing a computer to execute the rollback component.