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US 10,708,158 B2Granted
Network address of a computing device
AssigneeHewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
InventorAndy Brown
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Abstract
Examples disclosed herein relate, in one aspect, to a computing device. The computing device may include, among other things, a first communications module to send communication data, a communications monitor to capture a portion of the communication data sent from the first communication module, and a management processor to determine, based on the captured portion, a network address associated with the computing device.
Claims19
A computing device comprising:
- a first communications module to send communication data to a second communications module, wherein the first communications module is coupled to the second communications module via a bus comprising a plurality of signals;
- a communications monitor to capture a portion of the communication data sent from the first communication module to the second communications module, wherein the communications monitor is coupled to at least one of the plurality of signals of the bus between the first communications module and the second communications module;
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- a management processor to determine, based on the captured portion, a network address associated with the computing device, and communicate the network address to another computing device.
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A method comprising:
- monitoring, by a communications monitor, communication data transmitted between two communications modules of a computing device, wherein the two communications modules are coupled via a bus comprising a plurality of signals, and wherein the communications monitor is coupled to at least one of the plurality of signals of the bus between the two communications modules;
- capturing a portion of the communication data;
- determining, based on the communication data, a version of a protocol associated with the communication data;
- based on the version, determining a location, within the portion, of a network address associated with the computing device;
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- extracting the network address from the portion, and storing the network address in a memory of the computing device.
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A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium encoded with instructions executable by a processor to:
- obtain, from a communications monitor, a portion of communication data sent by a first communications module to a second communication module, wherein the first communications module is coupled to the second communications module via a bus comprising a plurality of signals, and wherein the communications monitor is coupled to at least one of the plurality of signals of the bus between the first communications module and the second communications module;
- determine, based on the portion, a network address associated with a computing device comprising the first communications module, wherein the communications monitor and the second communication module are included in the computing device;
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- store the network address in a memory coupled to the computing device.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.