US2005240939A1PendingUtilityA1

Method and system of remote monitoring and support of devices, extracting data from different types of email messages, and storing data according to data structures determined by the message types

Assignee: MOTOYAMA TETSUROPriority: Oct 15, 2001Filed: Apr 26, 2004Published: Oct 27, 2005
Est. expiryOct 15, 2021(expired)· nominal 20-yr term from priority
H04L 41/0856Y10S707/99945H04L 43/0811H04L 43/00H04L 41/046H04L 43/0882H04L 41/0853H04L 41/06H04L 43/10
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Abstract

A method, system and program product for implementing communication to download a driver to a target device or business office appliance using an electronic network message or e-mail. A newest driver for the device/appliance may be downloaded from, for example, a service center connected to the device/appliance through a Wide Area Network (WAN) such as the Internet. The device driver of a client computer using the device/appliance may be updated from the target device/appliance if it is determined that a user of the client computer desires to update the driver of the client computer.

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1 . A method comprising the steps of: 
 monitoring a first device by a second device;    determining, by the second device, whether a current device driver in the first device is a desired device driver; and    first transferring the desired device driver from the second device to the first device when it is determined that the current device driver in the first device is different from the desired device driver, where the current device driver and the desired device driver are configured to control operations of the first device.    
   
   
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