20130103380 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING MULTIPLE COMPUTER PERIPHERAL DEVICES USING A GENERIC DRIVER - A method for controlling a peripheral hardware device connected to a computer system is disclosed, the computer system includes an operating system, acting as the host operating system, running on a processor platform, and a generic device driver configured to operate on the combination of the operating system and a processor platform. The peripheral hardware device is delivered with an original peripheral hardware device driver file written for at least one of another operating system and a another processor platform, handling, by the generic device driver, interfaces between the operating system, the peripheral hardware devices and a software application. These are configured to interact with the original peripheral device driver file, and emulating, by the generic device driver, at least a part of the another operating system and the another processor that are required for the peripheral hardware device to operate on the operating system and the processor. | 04-25-2013 |