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US 2004/0172386 A1Published application
Method and system for managing a network
OwnerEric A. Pulsipher, Srikanth Natarajan +2inventors
InventorsEric A. Pulsipher, Srikanth Natarajan, Gabriel Wechter, Weiwen Chen
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Abstract
An exemplary method for managing a network includes selecting an agent based on information identifying a device in the network, contacting the device via the selected agent to extract data from the device, determining whether the agent successfully extracted the data from the device, and selecting a different agent based on the determining.
Claims21
A method for managing a network, comprising:
- selecting an agent based on information identifying a device in the network;
- contacting the device via the selected agent to extract data from the device;
- determining whether the agent successfully extracted the data from the device;
- and
- based on the determining, selecting a different agent.
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A system for managing a network, comprising:
- means for selecting an agent based on information identifying a device in the network;
- means for contacting the device via the selected agent to extract data from the device;
- means for determining whether the agent successfully extracted the data from the device;
- and
- means for selecting a different agent based on the determining.
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A machine readable medium comprising a computer program for causing a computer to perform:
- selecting an agent based on information identifying a device in the network;
- contacting the device via the selected agent to extract data from the device;
- determining whether the agent successfully extracted the data from the device;
- and
- based on the determining, selecting a different agent.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.