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US 2014/0237047 A1Published application
Automated command and discovery process for network communications
AssigneesAllied Telesis Kabushiki Kaisha, Allied Telesis Holdings K.K.
InventorsGeoffrey Douglas McCaughan, Graeme Keith Campbell
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Abstract
The embodiments disclose a method for automatically communicating a command, received from a command server, to a set of nodes from a plurality of nodes on a network, executing the command on each node in the set of nodes and sending a response message from each node in the set of nodes to the command server indicating a type of executed action, wherein the set of nodes form a plurality of response messages.
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A method comprising:
- automatically communicating a command, received from a command server, to a set of nodes within a plurality of nodes on a network;
- executing the command on each node in the set of nodes;
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- sending a response message from each node in the set of nodes to the command server indicating a type of executed action, wherein a plurality of response messages is created resulting from a response from each node-
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An apparatus comprising:
- a user interface configured to connect to a command server for receiving input commands, wherein the user interface is further configured for accessing a command server from a plurality of nodes of a network, wherein the input commands and response messages from a set of nodes of the plurality of nodes are automatically communicated between the command server and the set of nodes;
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- a communications system configured for automatically intercommunicating messages between the plurality of nodes to analyze the network and discover a structure associated with the network.
A process comprising:
- periodically transmitting automated messages between a plurality of nodes of a network;
- recording in a database node automated intercommunications based on the automated messages to analyze and discover a network structure;
- and
- dynamically managing any change in the network structure, wherein the managing includes modifying a number of nodes and updating records of the network structure in the database.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.