Method and apparatus for dynamic link driver configuration

Electrical computers and digital data processing systems: input/ – Input/output data processing – Peripheral configuration

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C713S001000, C713S100000, C719S321000, C719S327000

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ABSTRACT:
A method and apparatus embodied in transaction layer software suitable for use with serial bus devices, such as IEEE standard 1394 serial bus devices for supporting multiple link device drivers. The invention acquires or otherwise ascertains the capabilities of link devices and provides link device driver configurations to such link devices based on the link device's capabilities and behaviors, among other factors.

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