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Identifiers for USB Devices
Identifiers for USB Devices
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04/08/2022

Identifiers for USB devices

This section describes the device, hardware and compatible identifiers generated by USB devices.

Since the Windows operating system generates special USB identifiers for printer and mass storage devices, the following documentation divides USB identifiers into the following two groups.

Standard USB identifiers

Special USB identifiers

For all USB devices, the USB bus driver generates a standard set of identifiers composed of values retrieved from the USB device and interface descriptors. Standard USB Identifiers are discussed in the first of the two sections indicated above. In addition to the standard USB identifiers, native Windows drivers for mass storage and printer devices generate a separate set of USB identifiers composed of information about special relevance to printers and storage devices. These special USB identifiers are discussed in the second section.

Note

The numbers that are embedded in USB identifiers are in hexadecimal format.