Patent ID: 6952831
Filing Date: 2005-10-04
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A computer system for controlling a peripheral by a computing device via a peripheral driver comprising a universal peripheral driver component and a text based generic peripheral description file component, wherein the universal peripheral driver component is physically separate from the text based generic peripheral description file component, the computer system comprising: the computing device, wherein the computing device comprises the universal peripheral driver component; the peripheral, wherein the peripheral comprises a peripheral memory storage, and wherein the peripheral communicates with the computing device by way of a network protocol; the text based generic peripheral description file component containing a text based characterization of the peripheral, the text based characterization containing an implementation of device specific device driver functions, wherein the text based generic peripheral description file component is located using at least one pre-defined object identifier value, and wherein the text based generic peripheral description file component is accessed by the computing device by referencing the peripheral memory storage in accordance with the network protocol; and the universal peripheral driver component which incorporates the text based characterization obtained from the generic peripheral description file component, the universal peripheral driver component implementing the device specific device driver functions to control the peripheral in accordance with the incorporated text based characterization.