SYSTEM, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR DETERMINING A HOP COUNT BETWEEN NETWORK DEVICES UTILIZING A BINARY SEARCH

Patent №

US 8,411,684

Granted

2013-04-02

Filed 2009

Owner

MCAFEE, INC.

Lab

AI components

1

kr

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

12605695

A system, method, and computer program product are provided for determining a hop count between network devices utilizing a binary search. In use, a hop count range is identified based on a maximum hop count value. Furthermore, a plurality of packets are sent from a source device to a destination device for determining a hop count between the source device and the destination device, each of the packets having a different hop count threshold configured based on a binary search applied to the hop count range.

AI classification

Knowledge representation0.93
Evolutionary computation0.17
Planning0.01
AI hardware0.00
Vision0.00
Speech0.00
Machine learning0.00
Natural language0.00

Ownership

MCAFEE, INC.

assignment · 234250545

Assignors

DAS, SUDEEP, CHAKRAVARTHY, ANIL Z., PARANJAPE, SAMEER SHASHIKANT

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

© 2026 NYSGPT2525 LLC