Appeal No. 1997-2056
Application No. 08/019,798
BACKGROUND
The appellant's invention relates to a process of storing dynamically loaded device
drivers on a mass storage device to support access to removable computer cards. An
understanding of the invention can be derived from a reading of exemplary claim 17, which
is reproduced below.
17. In a computer system having a processor, a system memory, a mass
storage memory device and an interface for receiving a removable system
resource, a process for dynamically configuring device drivers of removable
computer system resources, said process comprising the steps of:
configuring the system memory in a bootstrap initialization; and
after said bootstrap initialization while an application program is
running and prior to any subsequent bootstrap initialization, performing the
following steps,
(a) receiving a removable system resource at the
interface;
(b) retrieving a device driver identifier from the
removable system resource;
(c) copying a device driver corresponding to said
device driver identifier from the mass storage memory device
to the system memory; and
(d) executing said device driver from the system
memory.
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