System and method for discovery of remote device driver functionality and interface

摘要

A method and system for connecting to a remote device by receiving information about the device's device driver through a remote device driver registry server using a platform-independent language. The computer system connects to the remote device driver registry server and requests information corresponding to the remote device. The computer system then receives from the remote device driver registry server data about the remote device driver corresponding to the remote device. The remote device driver registry server communicates the data in a platform-independent language such as XML. The computer system receives data such as attributes of the remote device driver and access interfaces of the remote device. A remote connection can then be established between the computer system and the remote device using the received remote device driver data. The computer system can access the remote device using the established connection and begin using the remote device.