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Patent Inventor Names
Brett J. Williams0
Duane E. Mentze0
Date of Patent
December 5, 2006
0Patent Application Number
107036750
Date Filed
November 7, 2003
0Patent Citations Received
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Patent abstract
In an embodiment of the invention, a method of distributing software, includes: browsing, by a hardware device, into a peripheral device that is connected to the hardware device via a medium that can be used to communicate with the hardware device by using a conventional protocol (e.g., HTTP over an Ethernet network); being redirected from the peripheral device to a backend system; providing peripheral device configuration information and hardware device install information to the backend system; and based upon the peripheral device configuration information and hardware device install information, distributing, from the backend system to the hardware device, hardware device installation and configuration software.
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