METHOD/SYSTEM FOR ACCESSING INFORMATION RELATED TO PERIPHERAL DEVICE

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method and system which determines a network address from a database and to generate the network address based on a peripheral device identifier by using the identifier obtained from the peripheral device. SOLUTION: Information related to the peripheral device is obtained from a remote device at the network address. This method includes automatically transferring at least one identifier from the peripheral device to a host device when the peripheral device is connected to the host device. The step of transferring is preferably done during or after enumeration of the peripheral device, such as occurs when a USB device is connected to a computer. The identifier is used as an index to automatically determine a network address from a database on the host device or a remote device or to automatically generate a network address.