METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ASSET TRACKING OF NETWORK ATTACHED DEVICES

Patent №

US 6,507,869

Granted

2003-01-14

Filed 1999

Owner

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION

AI components

1

kr

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

09300865

A method and apparatus for tracking assets in a computer network. More specifically, a host identification device monitors address identification packets transmitted from host devices connected to the host identification device in a network. The host identification device then stores the physical and protocol addresses of the host devices as indicated in these packets. When receiving a request packet from another device, the host identification device transmits the stored physical and protocol addresses to the requesting device.

Knowledge representationH04L 61/5014H04L 43/00H04L 61/10H04L 43/10

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Ownership

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION

assignment · 100730175

Assignors

FRANKE, HUBERTUS, BARANSKY, YURIJ A., PATTNAIK, PRATAP C.

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