Patent ID: 7296079
Filing Date: 2007-11-13
Classification: G06F,H04L,H04N

Abstract:
1. A method of initializing a plurality of protocol objects associated with respective communication protocols used to extract status information related to a monitored device communicatively coupled to a network, comprising: selecting a communication protocol among the respective communication protocols; retrieving, from a first memory, information for accessing the device using the selected communication protocol; accessing the device using the selected communication protocol and the information retrieved from the first memory to attempt to obtain vendor information related to the device; determining whether the vendor information was obtained from the device; if the vendor information was obtained from the device in the accessing step, (1) obtaining, from a second memory, support information for extracting the status information using each of the respective communication protocols, and (2) storing the vendor information and the respective support information in each protocol object of the plurality of protocol objects; and if the vendor information was not obtained from the device in the accessing step, repeating the preceding steps for another communication protocol of the respective communication protocols until the vendor information is obtained or until each communication protocol of the respective communication protocols has been selected.