Pre-Grant Publication Number: 20070162625
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Rakesh Parimi (about 1 year ago)
Regarding Claim 00001
I was recently trying to install an old web cam onto Windows XP - and it turned out that the device driver on the installation CD was only supported for XP SP2. I think this suggested new method of delivering device drivers will come in handy in such cases - if the suggested technique can really work. There are obvious dependencies on the Operating System, XP SP2 in this case, being able to use advanced device driver find (e.g. on network) and then download it (what about security, network firewall). Do I want it to be installed automatically? It that a reliable piece of software? What about security loopholes? Is it hack proof? The idea maybe a nice to have one, but the disclosure is not illustrating the exact technique to be used. In a way it is incomplete.Todd Gatts (about 1 year ago)
For me, Claim 1 seems to hinge on whether operating systems and device drivers are somehow different enough to make a relatively common interaction into a novel one. The process of detecting a missing piece of software or a down-level pieces of software, downloading the needed software, and restarting or continuing happens daily. Firefox, Windows updates, Java, Flash -- each of these detect, download, and install. In addition, many of these installations will occur without user interaction, if the user wishes. Why is an OS at boot time something different than a browser? Why is a device driver different than a Flash plug-in or a Java Virtual Machine?Richard Robinson (about 1 year ago)
I am not certain how a device driver is being defined here, but if a cryptographic key can be considered a device driver, then Blu-Ray, DVD, and other media disk readers always download a key (device driver) each time a new disk ("device") is placed into an old reader (e.g. DVD player).PEER TO PATENT ACTIVITY
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