Patent · US Expired

System for automatically installing digital printers on a network

US6967734B1 · kind B1 · utility

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Filing dateMar 23, 2001
Grant dateNov 22, 2005
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Expiry dateDec 21, 2023

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04N2201/0039
  • WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

In the Microsoft® Windows 2000™ environment, ports for printers on a network can be created using an AddPort command and XcvData function. By placing pointers within XcvData to data structures, the process of adding ports can be made largely invisible to a user.

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