DEVICE STATE INFORMATION EXTRACTION METHOD, DEVICE STATE TEST UNIT, NETWORK DEVICE AND SERVICE DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEM

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a diagnostic method and system that can easily apply diagnostic processing to devices interconnected via an IEEE 1394 network.;SOLUTION: The diagnostic system reads device specific information from a device connected to the IEEE 1394 network and/or instructs the device to perform device self tests and reads the result of the self tests from the device.;COPYRIGHT: (C)2002,JPO