US20080098410A1

Interlocked plug and play with power management for operating systems

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Abstract

The present invention provides a unified layer for Plug and Play (PnP) components and power management components while relieving device drivers from system-level complexities associated with implementing PnP and/or power management functionality. The layer operates at a level between low-level device drivers and more complex operating system tasks. The subject invention simplifies designing device drivers having proper power management support by creating an infrastructure that allows a device driver to operate within a driver framework or model and without having to process Plug-and-Play or Power Management I/O Request Packets (IRPs) directly.

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Term

Projected expiry 2 March 2027.

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    Broadest claimClaim Score 72, broad(NHIP)A method to facilitate device driver migration between operating systems, comprising:adapting at least one device driver to at least one operating system domain;substantially separating event processing of device power events, system power events and Plug and Play events from the device driver to a middleware domain;and employing the device driver in a subsequent operating system domain.