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Apparatus for sending message via cable between programs and performing automatic operation in response to sent message

US5590314A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateOct 11, 1994
Grant dateDec 31, 1996
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Expiry dateOct 11, 2014

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG06F9/44
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

An automated operation machine including a first device driver for transmitting a console display message given by being addressed from a program for automatic operation, and a first adaptor connected to the first device driver, for outputting said console display message in a preselected format, can additionally own automatic operation performance without changing the first device driver by including the below-mentioned arrangements. That is, this automated operation machine is included of a second device driver for transmitting a predetermined operator command given from an operator program in correspondence to acertain message, a second adaptor connected to the second device driver, for outputting the operator command in a predetermined format, and a connection cable for mutually connecting the first device driver with the second device driver and for switching the console display message and the operator command between the first and second device drivers in order to continue the above-explained automatic operation. The connection cable is mutually cross-connected between on pair of input and output terminals of the first and second adaptors. The memory stores a console change …

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