Patent ID: 7111304
Filing Date: 2006-09-19
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method for accessing information on a plurality of different devices in a network, comprising: receiving a request by a provider for device property information of a first device; calling a method of a factory class in response to the request, wherein the factory class manages a device program for each of the different devices; instantiating, by the called factory class method, a first device program for the first device, wherein the first device program includes device program methods that are common in each of the device programs for the different devices; calling, by the first device program, methods in a page program to access the device property information, wherein the methods in the page program include device specific commands to query the first device for the device property information; executing statements in the first device program to query the first device for the first device property information; updating a first page in a computer-readable medium with the first device property information in response to the query, wherein the computer-readable medium includes a set of pages that each include device property information for each of the different devices that are selectively accessible based on queries using specific commands in a respective device program for a respective different device; and returning, by the provider, the first device property information.