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Network switch, device management system, and device management method thereof

AssigneeRuby Tech Corporation

InventorsYu-Che Young, Li-Te Chang, Chin-Piao Hung

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Abstract

A network switch, a device management system, and a device management method thereof are provided. A network management system with a graphical management interface is embedded in the network switch, so that network administrators can use web browser for management. The graphical management interface provides a topology mode, a floor mode and a map mode for the network administrators to intuitively manage Internet Protocol (IP) connected apparatuses on a topological diagram, a floor plan or a map. Furthermore, in response to a control operation corresponding to the IP connected apparatus on the graphical management interface, the network switch performs a device function operation (e.g., an information collecting operation, a configuration setting operation, a node searching operation, a system login operation, etc.) corresponding to the control operation through a communication module thereof. Accordingly, an innovative and convenient device management system can be provided for the network administrators.

Claims14

Dependent claims

An IP connected apparatus, comprising:

a communication module, transmitting and receiving signals;
a storage unit, storing a plurality of modules;
and
a processing unit, coupled to the communication module and the storage unit, accessing and executing the modules stored in the storage unit, and the modules comprising:
a device management module, performing a grouping operation on a first IP connected apparatus and a second IP connected apparatus to group the first IP connected apparatus and the second IP connected apparatus into a first group through the communication module and configuring a coupling relation of the first group;
and
a management interface module, providing a graphical management interface, wherein the device management module performs the grouping operation corresponding to a control operation in response to the control operation on the graphical management interface, wherein
the device management module further groups a third IP connected apparatus into the first group in esponse to the control operation being corresponding to the first IP connected apparatus and the second IP connected apparatus but not corresponding to the third IP connected apparatus, wherein the third IP connected apparatus is on a routing path between the first IP connected apparatus and the second IP connected apparatus, and the routing path is formed by connections between the first, the second and the third IP connected apparatuses.

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A device management method, adapted to an IP connected apparatus having a communication module, wherein the IP connected apparatus is directly or indirectly coupled to a first IP connected apparatus and a second IP connected apparatus, and the device management method comprising:

providing a graphical management interface;
performing, in response to a control operation on the graphical management interface, a grouping operation on the first IP connected apparatus and the second IP connected apparatus to group the first IP connected apparatus and the second IP connected apparatus into a first group through the communication module, wherein
a third IP connected apparatus is grouped into the first group in response to the control operation being corresponding to the first IP connected apparatus and the second IP connected apparatus but not corresponding to the third IP connected apparatus, wherein the third IP connected apparatus is on a routing path between the first IP connected apparatus and the second IP connected apparatus, and the routing path is formed by connections between the first, the second and the third IP connected apparatuses;
and
configuring a coupling relation of the first group.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 16/182,618Filed 7 Nov 2018 · continuation in part
Priority: TW 104133845 A15 Oct 2015
Published: US 2019/0075032 A17 Mar 2019
Granted: 31 Dec 2019
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification5 codes

H04L 41/22
Arrangements for maintenance, administration or management of data switching networks, e.g. of packet switching networks: comprising specially…
H04L 41/12
Arrangements for maintenance, administration or management of data switching networks, e.g. of packet switching networks: discovery or management…
H04L 41/0213
Standardisation; Integration: standardised network management protocols, e.g. simple network management protocol [SNMP]
H04L 63/20
Network architectures or network communication protocols for network security: for managing network security; network security policies in general

Family

Application62/221,112Us provisional application · filed 21 Sep 2015
Application14/958,875Parent of this continuation-in-part · filed 3 Dec 2015
US 2019/0075032 A1Pre-grant publication · published 7 Mar 2019
US 10,164,843 B2Parent of this continuation-in-part
US 2017/0085434 A1Published application
US 10,523,525 B2This patent

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