Table-driven hardware control system

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2006-06-20

2006-06-20

Browne, Lynne H. (Department: 2116)

Electrical computers and digital processing systems: support

Digital data processing system initialization or configuration

C713S002000

Reexamination Certificate

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07065638

ABSTRACT:
Methods and apparatuses for processing a request to program a device in a data processing system having an operating system (OS) executed therein are described herein. In one aspect of the invention, an exemplary method includes indexing the request to a data structure containing information cross-referencing a list of actions dedicated to the request, the data structure linking with at least one table having data information related to the list of actions, the at least one table being independent of the OS and the device, looking up the at least one table to retrieve the data information related to the list of actions, and instructing a function to program the device based on the data information retrieved from the at least one table, operation of the function being independent of the device. Other methods and apparatuses are also described.

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