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US 2010/0142450 A1Published application
Locally adminstered mac address based method for selectively and efficiently identifying enhanced version nodes of standards
AssigneeTexas Instruments Incorporated
InventorsShantanu Kangude, Harshal S. Chhaya
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Abstract
Embodiments of the invention provide a method for selectively identifying nodes implemented enhanced version of a protocol standard by creating a random locally administered MAC address and advertising said random locally administered MAC address as the address that implies a particular protocol amendment of a protocol standard.
Claims7
1-12. (canceled)
A method for selectively identifying nodes implementing enhanced version of a protocol standard, said method comprising:
- creating a random locally administered MAC address;
- advertising to a network said random locally administered MAC address as the address that implies a particular protocol amendment of the protocol standard.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.