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- the present invention relates to drivers for computers and in particular, though not necessarily, to drivers for interfacing input/output devices of a computer with software applications running on the computer.
- Windows 95 and NT comprise a User component (USER.EXE) which allows applications to be interfaced to internal and external devices such as hard disc drives, memory chips, and input/output ports.
- This architecture is used so that all applications can use a common input/output protocol regardless of the input/output (i/o) device with which they are communicating. It is the interface modules which handle ‘translation’ of the common protocol into i/o device specific protocols and vice versa.
- the central communications component of Windows 95 is the virtual communications driver or module VCOMM which manages access to ‘com’ ports and printer ports. These ports require a single asynchronous data stream and are in fact ‘virtual’ ports defined by an actual physical port in combination with a virtual device driver (VxD) termed a ‘port driver’.
- VxD virtual device driver
- Windows 95 creates a com port for each physical serial port of the computer. Typically there are two such physical ports giving rise to com ports ‘Com1’ and ‘Com2’. Other (virtual) com ports may be added as required. Corn ports may be selected from the ‘System’ window in the ‘Control Panel’.
- VCOMM is also present in Windows 3.11 and can be installed in Windows 3.1.
- WO 96/35286 describes a mobile telephone coupled to a personal computer and more particularly a software program for operating the phone through an i/o port of the computer.
- This port may be a serial port or a parallel port, e.g. PCMCIA.
- the controlling application in such a system may be, for example, the WinFax (TM) application which enables facsimiles to be written on the computer and transmitted via the connected phone.
- the application also enables incoming facsimiles to be received on the computer.
- WinFax is able to communicate with the phone through VCOMM and a standard virtual serial port (i.e. a physical port in combination with a serial VxD customised for the phone) registered to VCOMM.
- This virtual port is typically installed as ‘Com3’.
- a possible solution to this problem is to interface the control application (e.g. WinFax) to the phone using VCOMM and to interface the monitoring application through another Windows (TM) communications module known as DeviceIOcontrol.
- DeviceIOcontrol is a more primitive interface than VCOMM but is well suited to relatively simple applications.
- the virtual serial port registered to DeviceIOcontrol for the monitoring application will not appear on the System Control Panel and only Com 3 , registered to WinFax, will appear there.
- both ports should utilise the same VxD.
- VCOMM loads the VxD from the computer's hard disc into random access memory (RAM).
- RAM random access memory
- the address at which a registration table can be found is also provided to VCOMM, which table contains the location of VxD functions which can be called by VCOMM.
- VCOMM When DeviceIOcontrol subsequently tries to register with the VxD, it finds that the VxD has already been loaded to RAM and the address of the registration table (and any other necessary information) is not provided to DeviceIOcontrol. DeviceIOcontrol is therefore unable to communicate with the telephone.
- a supplementary driver Upon registration of a supplementary driver, that driver registers the main driver to the associated communications module, loading the driver to RAM memory if this has not already been done. Regardless of whether or not the main driver has already been loaded however, the supplementary driver provides the main driver function interface to the associated communications module.
- said operating system is a Windows (TM) operating system, for example Windows 95, and the two communications modules are VCOMM and DeviceIOcontrol.
- TM Windows
- the two communications modules are VCOMM and DeviceIOcontrol.
- i/o device is used here to denote a receiver and/or generator of digital data.
- the device may be for example a physical i/o port in combination with a physical device, an internal memory unit, or a software module.
- said i/o device comprises a serial interface port, e.g. an RS232 port. More preferably, said communications protocol is a protocol for communicating with a mobile telephone coupled to a serial interface port of the computer. Alternatively, the i/o device may comprise a parallel port, e.g. a PCMCIA slot.
- said function interface which is transferred to the communications modules comprises the address of a registration (or main driver access address) table.
- a storage medium having recorded thereon at least said first and second supplementary drivers of the above first aspect of the invention.
- the storage medium also has recorded thereon said main driver.
- a computer having a non-volatile memory, a random access memory (RAM), at least one input/output (i/o) device, and an operating system in which at least two communications modules are provided for interfacing applications running on the computer to said i/o device, the computer comprising:
- a main driver stored in the non-volatile memory and defining the communications protocol for said i/o device
- a first supplementary driver for registration to a first of the communication modules, the first supplementary driver being arranged in use to cause the main driver to be loaded from the non-volatile memory to the RAM and also to transfer a function interface for the main driver to said first communications module;
- a second supplementary driver for registration to a second of the communication modules, the second supplementary driver being arranged to transfer a function interface for said main driver to said second communications module.
- said operating system is a Windows (TM) operating system
- said communications modules are VCOMM and DeviceIOcontrol.
- said i/o device is a mobile telephone coupled to a serial interface port of the computer.
- a mobile telephone 1 coupled to a personal computer 2 .
- a cable 3 connects a serial input/output port 4 of the telephone 1 to serial input/output port 5 of the computer.
- these ports 4 , 5 are RS232 ports.
- Data is passed through the cable 3 in the form of an asynchronous stream of digital data and the cable 3 comprises respective lines for incoming and outgoing data and lines for so-called ‘handshake’ signals.
- data is coupled to and from the computer's i/o port 5 through a UART (Universal Asynchronous Receiver Transmitter) circuit 6 .
- UART Universal Asynchronous Receiver Transmitter
- Data generally originates from, or terminates at, one or more application programs, and two such application programs are denoted in FIG. 1 with reference numerals 7 and 8 .
- reference numeral 7 denotes the WinFax (TM) application, which is an application able to send and receive facsimile transmissions
- reference numeral 8 denotes a phone monitoring application.
- the latter application 8 is able to monitor the operation of the connected phone 1 and to provide a visual indication on the computer's display (not shown) of such things as remaining phone battery life, cellular field strength, and on-hook/off-hook status. Both of these applications can be run simultaneously using a multi-tasking mode of operation and are stored (or at least their currently active parts are stored) in a random access memory (RAM) 13 of the computer 2 .
- RAM random access memory
- the computer 2 is operated by the Windows (TM) operating system 9 which resides in the RAM 13 .
- the operating system provides an interface for the applications 7 , 8 to hardware and software devices such as the display, memory, keyboard, mouse etc.
- Windows (TM) comprises a communications module 10 called VCOMM, which is a software module which the WinFax (TM) application 7 uses to communicate with the mobile phone 1 .
- WinFax (TM) 7 registers with VCOMM 10 , advising VCOMM that VCOMM should register a first supplementary software driver 11 currently stored on the computer's hard disc drive (HDD) 12 (other non-volatile storage means may be used as an alternative to a HDD, e.g. CD ROM).
- HDD hard disc drive
- Registration involves copying this supplementary driver 11 , by way of the operating system 9 , from the HDD 12 to the computer's RAM 13 .
- the supplementary driver 11 contains a relatively small amount of code, e.g. 50 lines, which is run by the computer's CPU (not shown).
- This main driver contains a main driver access address table 15 , and registration of the supplementary driver 11 also causes the address (i.e. memory location) 18 of the access table 15 to be passed to VCOMM 10 .
- the main driver is much larger than the supplementary driver, e.g. 100,000 lines, and comprises a number of routines which define the protocol for communicating with the connected telephone 1 .
- the phone 1 is designed to receive and transmit data in a particular format and certain routines of the main driver 14 provide for converting application generated data into this format and vice versa.
- VCOMM uses the access address table 15 to obtain the addresses of the necessary routines in the main driver 14 .
- Output data received from WinFax is then processed by VCOMM 10 in accordance with the called routines and is transferred to the telephone via the main driver 14 , the UART circuit 6 , and the i/o ports 4 , 5 .
- VCOMM 10 performs a similar function for incoming data.
- WinFax (TM) 7 With WinFax (TM) 7 still running, the user may wish to open the monitoring application 8 . When this is opened, the application advises DeviceIOcontrol 16 (a second software communications module of the Windows (TM) operating system) that it wishes to communicate with the mobile telephone 1 . Such communication requires the use of the main driver 14 already transferred to RAM 13 . However, in order to access the main driver 14 , DeviceIOcontrol 16 must obtain the address 18 of the main driver access address table 15 . DeviceIOcontrol 16 therefore registers a second supplementary driver 17 , similar to the first supplementary driver 11 , transferring the second supplementary driver 17 from the HDD 12 to the computer's RAM 13 .
- TM Windows
- the second supplementary driver 17 is run, and it is determined that the main driver 14 is already loaded into RAM 13 . There is therefore no need to repeat this operation.
- the address 18 of the main driver access address table 15 is then again copied to RAM 15 where it is made available to DeviceIOcontrol 16 . Thereafter, DeviceIOcontrol 16 can use the access address table 15 to access the main driver 14 and to facilitate communication between the monitoring application 8 and the telephone 1 .
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- The present invention relates to drivers for computers and in particular, though not necessarily, to drivers for interfacing input/output devices of a computer with software applications running on the computer.
- The Microsoft Windows 95 and NT (Trade Marks) operating systems have established themselves as the dominant operating system for personal computers (PC). Furthermore, it can be expected that in the near future derivatives of the Windows (™) systems will continue to hold this position. As such, designers of software applications intended to run on PCs are to a great extent constrained by the need to enable their applications to run under the Windows (™) operating system.
- In addition to the basic software ‘kernel’, which provides the base operating system (including file i/o services, memory management, and task scheduling), Windows 95 and NT (™) comprise a User component (USER.EXE) which allows applications to be interfaced to internal and external devices such as hard disc drives, memory chips, and input/output ports. This architecture is used so that all applications can use a common input/output protocol regardless of the input/output (i/o) device with which they are communicating. It is the interface modules which handle ‘translation’ of the common protocol into i/o device specific protocols and vice versa.
- The central communications component of Windows 95 (Trade Mark) is the virtual communications driver or module VCOMM which manages access to ‘com’ ports and printer ports. These ports require a single asynchronous data stream and are in fact ‘virtual’ ports defined by an actual physical port in combination with a virtual device driver (VxD) termed a ‘port driver’. Upon installation, Windows 95 creates a com port for each physical serial port of the computer. Typically there are two such physical ports giving rise to com ports ‘Com1’ and ‘Com2’. Other (virtual) com ports may be added as required. Corn ports may be selected from the ‘System’ window in the ‘Control Panel’. VCOMM is also present in Windows 3.11 and can be installed in Windows 3.1.
- WO 96/35286 describes a mobile telephone coupled to a personal computer and more particularly a software program for operating the phone through an i/o port of the computer. This port may be a serial port or a parallel port, e.g. PCMCIA. The controlling application in such a system may be, for example, the WinFax (™) application which enables facsimiles to be written on the computer and transmitted via the connected phone. The application also enables incoming facsimiles to be received on the computer. WinFax is able to communicate with the phone through VCOMM and a standard virtual serial port (i.e. a physical port in combination with a serial VxD customised for the phone) registered to VCOMM. This virtual port is typically installed as ‘Com3’.
- In the case of the mobile telephone coupled to a computer, it is extremely desirable to be able to monitor the status of the phone, e.g. call in progress, incoming call received etc, via the computer and to be able to provide a visual indication of that status on the computer's display. This is especially so where the phone has no user interface and is intended solely for use with a computer. To achieve this monitoring, it is possible to run a custom monitoring application on the computer which is interfaced with the phone through VCOMM and a virtual port.
- It is also extremely desirable to be able to run a monitoring application of the type described above at the same time as another application, e.g. WinFax, is being used to control the connected telephone. However, as the same virtual port cannot be used for both applications, this requires the installation of two additional com ports (e.g. Com3 and Com4) although both com ports share the same VxD. The resulting large number of com ports appearing on the ‘System’ Control Panel is likely to confuse the user and may result in com ports being incorrectly registered by the user.
- A possible solution to this problem is to interface the control application (e.g. WinFax) to the phone using VCOMM and to interface the monitoring application through another Windows (™) communications module known as DeviceIOcontrol. DeviceIOcontrol is a more primitive interface than VCOMM but is well suited to relatively simple applications. The virtual serial port registered to DeviceIOcontrol for the monitoring application will not appear on the System Control Panel and only Com3, registered to WinFax, will appear there.
- In order to minimise the space occupied by the two additional virtual ports in RAM, both ports should utilise the same VxD. However, a problem arises when DeviceIOcontrol attempts to register the phone specific VxD after the control application has previously registered that same VxD. Upon first registration, VCOMM loads the VxD from the computer's hard disc into random access memory (RAM). The address at which a registration table can be found is also provided to VCOMM, which table contains the location of VxD functions which can be called by VCOMM. When DeviceIOcontrol subsequently tries to register with the VxD, it finds that the VxD has already been loaded to RAM and the address of the registration table (and any other necessary information) is not provided to DeviceIOcontrol. DeviceIOcontrol is therefore unable to communicate with the telephone.
- It will be appreciated that this problem arises wherever two or more applications are required to access the same i/o device, with the same VxD, but using different communications modules.
- It is an object of the present invention to overcome or at least mitigate the problems noted in the preceding paragraphs. This and other objects are met by providing a main driver for the i/o device, and two or more supplementary drivers which can be registered with respective communications modules.
- Upon registration of a supplementary driver, that driver registers the main driver to the associated communications module, loading the driver to RAM memory if this has not already been done. Regardless of whether or not the main driver has already been loaded however, the supplementary driver provides the main driver function interface to the associated communications module.
- According to a first aspect of the present invention there is provided a method of operating a computer having a non-volatile memory, a random access memory (RAM), at least one input/output (i/o) device, and an operating system in which at least two communications modules are provided for interfacing applications running on the computer to said i/o device, the method comprising:
- registering a first supplementary driver to a first of the communication modules, whereupon the first supplementary driver causes a main driver, which defines the communications protocol for said i/o device, to be loaded from the non-volatile memory to the RAM and also transfers a function interface for the main driver to said first communications module; and
- subsequently registering a second supplementary driver to a second of the communication modules, whereupon the second supplementary driver transfers a function interface for said main driver to said second communications module.
- Preferably, said operating system is a Windows (™) operating system, for example Windows 95, and the two communications modules are VCOMM and DeviceIOcontrol.
- The term ‘i/o device’ is used here to denote a receiver and/or generator of digital data. The device may be for example a physical i/o port in combination with a physical device, an internal memory unit, or a software module.
- In one embodiment, said i/o device comprises a serial interface port, e.g. an RS232 port. More preferably, said communications protocol is a protocol for communicating with a mobile telephone coupled to a serial interface port of the computer. Alternatively, the i/o device may comprise a parallel port, e.g. a PCMCIA slot.
- Preferably, said function interface which is transferred to the communications modules comprises the address of a registration (or main driver access address) table.
- According to a second aspect of the present invention there is provided a storage medium having recorded thereon at least said first and second supplementary drivers of the above first aspect of the invention.
- Preferably, the storage medium also has recorded thereon said main driver.
- According to a third aspect of the present invention there is provided a computer programmed to perform the method of the above first aspect of the invention.
- According to a fourth aspect of the present invention there is provided a computer having a non-volatile memory, a random access memory (RAM), at least one input/output (i/o) device, and an operating system in which at least two communications modules are provided for interfacing applications running on the computer to said i/o device, the computer comprising:
- a main driver stored in the non-volatile memory and defining the communications protocol for said i/o device;
- a first supplementary driver for registration to a first of the communication modules, the first supplementary driver being arranged in use to cause the main driver to be loaded from the non-volatile memory to the RAM and also to transfer a function interface for the main driver to said first communications module; and
- a second supplementary driver for registration to a second of the communication modules, the second supplementary driver being arranged to transfer a function interface for said main driver to said second communications module.
- Preferably, said operating system is a Windows (™) operating system, and said communications modules are VCOMM and DeviceIOcontrol.
- Preferably, said i/o device is a mobile telephone coupled to a serial interface port of the computer.
- For a better understanding of the present invention and in order to show how the same may be carried into effect reference will now be made, by way of example, to the accompanying drawing which shows schematically a computer in which two applications are interfaced to a mobile telephone through respective communications modules.
- There is illustrated schematically in the attached drawing a
mobile telephone 1 coupled to a personal computer 2. More particularly, acable 3 connects a serial input/output port 4 of thetelephone 1 to serial input/output port 5 of the computer. Typically, theseports cable 3 in the form of an asynchronous stream of digital data and thecable 3 comprises respective lines for incoming and outgoing data and lines for so-called ‘handshake’ signals. - Considering the personal computer2, data is coupled to and from the computer's i/
o port 5 through a UART (Universal Asynchronous Receiver Transmitter) circuit 6. Data generally originates from, or terminates at, one or more application programs, and two such application programs are denoted in FIG. 1 withreference numerals reference numeral 7 denotes the WinFax (™) application, which is an application able to send and receive facsimile transmissions, andreference numeral 8 denotes a phone monitoring application. Thelatter application 8 is able to monitor the operation of theconnected phone 1 and to provide a visual indication on the computer's display (not shown) of such things as remaining phone battery life, cellular field strength, and on-hook/off-hook status. Both of these applications can be run simultaneously using a multi-tasking mode of operation and are stored (or at least their currently active parts are stored) in a random access memory (RAM) 13 of the computer 2. - The computer2 is operated by the Windows (™)
operating system 9 which resides in theRAM 13. The operating system provides an interface for theapplications communications module 10 called VCOMM, which is a software module which the WinFax (™)application 7 uses to communicate with themobile phone 1. Assuming that no phone related applications are currently open, when the WinFax (™) application is opened, WinFax (™) 7 registers withVCOMM 10, advising VCOMM that VCOMM should register a firstsupplementary software driver 11 currently stored on the computer's hard disc drive (HDD) 12 (other non-volatile storage means may be used as an alternative to a HDD, e.g. CD ROM). Registration involves copying thissupplementary driver 11, by way of theoperating system 9, from theHDD 12 to the computer'sRAM 13. Thesupplementary driver 11 contains a relatively small amount of code, e.g. 50 lines, which is run by the computer's CPU (not shown). This causes amain software driver 14 to be copied by the operating system from theHDD 12 to theRAM 13. This main driver contains a main driver access address table 15, and registration of thesupplementary driver 11 also causes the address (i.e. memory location) 18 of the access table 15 to be passed to VCOMM 10. - The main driver is much larger than the supplementary driver, e.g. 100,000 lines, and comprises a number of routines which define the protocol for communicating with the
connected telephone 1. For example, thephone 1 is designed to receive and transmit data in a particular format and certain routines of themain driver 14 provide for converting application generated data into this format and vice versa. - When an output data request is made from the WinFax application to VCOMM, VCOMM uses the access address table15 to obtain the addresses of the necessary routines in the
main driver 14. Output data received from WinFax is then processed byVCOMM 10 in accordance with the called routines and is transferred to the telephone via themain driver 14, the UART circuit 6, and the i/o ports VCOMM 10 performs a similar function for incoming data. - With WinFax (™)7 still running, the user may wish to open the
monitoring application 8. When this is opened, the application advises DeviceIOcontrol 16 (a second software communications module of the Windows (™) operating system) that it wishes to communicate with themobile telephone 1. Such communication requires the use of themain driver 14 already transferred toRAM 13. However, in order to access themain driver 14,DeviceIOcontrol 16 must obtain theaddress 18 of the main driver access address table 15.DeviceIOcontrol 16 therefore registers a secondsupplementary driver 17, similar to the firstsupplementary driver 11, transferring the secondsupplementary driver 17 from theHDD 12 to the computer'sRAM 13. - The second
supplementary driver 17 is run, and it is determined that themain driver 14 is already loaded intoRAM 13. There is therefore no need to repeat this operation. Theaddress 18 of the main driver access address table 15 is then again copied to RAM 15 where it is made available toDeviceIOcontrol 16. Thereafter,DeviceIOcontrol 16 can use the access address table 15 to access themain driver 14 and to facilitate communication between themonitoring application 8 and thetelephone 1. - Conflict between the two applications is avoided by the
main driver 14 which allocates transmission slots according to demand. - It will be appreciated that modifications may be made to the above described embodiment without departing from the scope of the present invention. For example, it will be appreciated that it is irrelevant which of the two
applications monitoring application 8 is opened before WinFax (™) 7, thesupplementary driver 17 will be registered first and it is this driver which will load themain driver 14 into the RAM.
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