Electrical computers and digital data processing systems: input/ – Input/output data processing – Peripheral configuration
Patent
1999-04-23
1999-10-19
Kulik, Paul V.
Electrical computers and digital data processing systems: input/
Input/output data processing
Peripheral configuration
709302, G06F 1310
Patent
active
059681381
ABSTRACT:
The method of the invention enables an application program to recover feature information regarding a managed entity without having any predefined knowledge regarding the managed entity. The method employs a database that is operated by a database management program which includes data structures that define each of plural managed entities and each management interface associated therewith. A "managed entity" is a data structure that lists all "management interfaces" present in a device that is to be utilized by a processor. A "management interface" is a data structure that includes one or more procedures for accessing a device and obtaining information regarding the device and a "proxy management interface" is a data structure that is established to store previously retrieved feature data. All devices with a same feature can be accessed by an identical management interface procedure. Accordingly, an application merely needs to know how to deal with managed entity and management interfaces to obtain either capability or status information regarding a device.
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Hewlett--Packard Company
Kulik Paul V.
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