Global Patent Index - EP 1175646 A1

EP 1175646 A1 20020130 - A METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REMOTE INSTALLATION OF NETWORK DRIVERS AND SOFTWARE

Title (en)

A METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REMOTE INSTALLATION OF NETWORK DRIVERS AND SOFTWARE

Title (de)

VERFAHREN UND VORRICHTUNG ZUR FERNINSTALLATION VON NETZTREIBERN UND SOFTWARE

Title (fr)

PROCEDE ET APPAREIL PERMETTANT L'INSTALLATION A DISTANCE DE PILOTES DE RESEAU ET DE LOGICIEL

Publication

EP 1175646 A1 20020130 (EN)

Application

EP 99967236 A 19991207

Priority

  • US 9929117 W 19991207
  • US 11129298 P 19981207

Abstract (en)

[origin: WO0034885A1] The present invention provides for the remote installation of a rerouting driver (335) into the network driver interface (315) in the path between one or more media access control units (320) and one or more protocol drivers (310) in a computer system. Code in the network driver interface (315) is disabled, patched to insert the rerouting driver (335), and then re-enabled. The disabling and re-enabling of the code is performed such that the computer system does not have to be restarted following installation of the patch.

IPC 1-7

G06F 15/177; G06F 15/16

IPC 8 full level

G06F 9/445 (2006.01)

CPC (source: EP)

G06F 8/656 (2018.01); G06F 9/4411 (2013.01)

Citation (search report)

See references of WO 0034885A1

Designated contracting state (EPC)

AT BE CH CY DE DK ES FI FR GB GR IE IT LI LU MC NL PT SE

DOCDB simple family (publication)

WO 0034885 A1 20000615; AU 2355500 A 20000626; EP 1175646 A1 20020130; JP 2002532784 A 20021002

DOCDB simple family (application)

US 9929117 W 19991207; AU 2355500 A 19991207; EP 99967236 A 19991207; JP 2000587276 A 19991207