Patent ID: 7502852
Filing Date: 2009-03-10
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method of extracting information related to a monitored device communicatively coupled to a network using an HTTP communication protocol, comprising: retrieving, from a first memory, vendor and model information of the monitored device; determining, based on the vendor and model information, at least one access function configured to access the monitored device using the HTTP protocol to obtain device information of the monitored device, wherein the at least one access function includes at least one of (1) a first access function configured to obtain the device information from between tags in a web page obtained from the monitored device, and (2) a second access function configured to obtain the device information from within a script in the web page; accessing the monitored device using the HTTP protocol and each access function of the at least one access function to attempt to obtain the device information, wherein the accessing includes both: storing, in a second memory, the device information obtained in the accessing, in association with the vendor and model information; and retrieving from the first memory, based on the vendor and model information and the at least one access function, support information used to extract the device information from the web page using the HTTP protocol and the at least one access function.