SOFTWARE INTERFACING PERIPHERAL DEVICES

Brand	Owner	Address	Description
FORCE API	Immersion Human Interface Corporation	2158 Paragon Dr. San Jose CA 95131	software for interfacing peripheral devices, namely, force feedback hardware, to computers;API;
	Where the owner name is not linked, that owner no longer owns the brand

Technical Examples

A computer system includes a peripheral device and a processing unit. The processing unit is adapted to execute a driver for interfacing with the peripheral device in a standard mode of operation and an authentication agent in a privileged mode of operation, wherein the authentication agent includes program instructions adapted to authenticate the driver. The peripheral device may comprise a communications device, such as a software modem. A method for identifying security violations in a computer system includes executing a driver in a standard processing mode of a processing unit; transitioning the processing unit into a privileged processing mode; and authenticating the driver in the privileged processing mode. The driver may be adapted for interfacing with a communications peripheral device, such as a software modem.