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Abstract

A system and method for manipulating the private settings of a peripheral device, where the system includes at least one host computer and a peripheral device in a communication interface. The peripheral device has a data store including setting data for public settings of the peripheral device and private settings of the peripheral device that are implicated in the public settings, and has a variable manager that is in communication with the data store of the peripheral device. The host computer transmits a data packet including one or more public settings for of the peripheral device across the communication interface and the variable manager receives the data packet and retrieves the setting data from the data store in response to receipt of the data packet. The variable manager processes the data packet and manipulates one or more of the private settings of the peripheral device. The invention includes a method of manipulating the stored public settings and private settings of a peripheral device including the steps of receiving a data packet at the peripheral device to request an action relative to one or more public settings of the peripheral device, and processing the data packet at the peripheral device to determine the specific public setting(s) for which action is requested. The method then includes the steps of determining the private setting(s) associated with the public setting(s) of the data packet, and manipulating one or more public settings and/or one or more private settings of the peripheral device in response to the data packet. The step of manipulating is alternately retrieving, storing, and updating public settings and corresponding private settings.

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