Patent ID: 7715027
Filing Date: 2010-05-11
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method for single-event auto-downloading as a pair to a selected, download-requesting client device, for the auto configuring therein of an imaging-device driver, an imaging device driver and associated configuration-information, which associated driver/configuration-information pair is (a) specifically compatible with the selected client device's operating system, and (b) embedded, as an associated pair, within the imaging device's included firmware, along with, and as a part of, a plurality of similarly embedded, client-device-requestable, associated driver/configuration-information pairs that are specifically compatible, each as an associated pair, with a different client-device operating system, said method comprising establishing between the selected client device and the imaging device an operative connection, including a bi-directional, imaging-device communication port which is (a) compatible with both devices, and (b) the port via which imaging-job information will be exchanged between the devices, with respect to said establishing, and utilizing the mentioned port, effecting, via a single, client-device-implemented request, a companion, single-event download delivery therethrough directly from the imaging device to the selected client device of the embedded, associated driver/configuration-information pair which is specifically compatible with the selected client device's defined operating system, and in association with said single-event effecting, and the resulting single-event, direct-from-imaging-device, client-device-requested download delivery, auto-configuring, in the selected client device, the thus directly delivered imaging driver utilizing the thus directly delivered, paired configuration information.