Common device interface

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2006-04-18

2006-04-18

Thomson, William (Department: 2194)

Electrical computers and digital processing systems: interprogra

Device driver communication

C719S320000, C709S217000

Reexamination Certificate

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07032228

ABSTRACT:
A common device interface for facilitating communication exchanges between physical transport drivers and higher-level software emulations. The common device interface is defined by an input/output control block (IOCB) data structure that allows those portions of different emulations and physical transport drivers that interact with each other to be generic. Thus, the emulation need not know or be concerned with the underlying characteristics of the type of physical transport driver with which it is communicating.

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