Patent ID: 7804609
Filing Date: 2010-09-28
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method of automatically configuring a target computer on a network to have a connection to a network printer, the method comprising: receiving through the network, at the target computer from a server, configuration signals having corresponding configuration information of the network printer that identify (i) a share-providing computer on the network, the share-providing computer having a share for a local printer and having a driver for the local printer, and (ii) a network location of the network printer on the network, wherein the configuration information does not include a driver for the network printer; automatically sending through the network from the target computer a command that results in the share-providing computer automatically sending to the target computer driver-identification signals that identify a driver for the network printer; determining, at the target computer from the driver-identification signals, whether the target computer includes a driver for the network printer based on the share of the local printer; in response to said determining indicating that the target computer does not include the driver for the network printer, determining, at the target computer, whether the share-providing computer on the network includes the driver for the network printer: establishing, at the target computer, a network-printer connection with the network printer, said network printer being at the location identified by the configuration signals and whose driver is the driver identified by the driver-identification signals.