Systems and methods of discovering and controlling devices without explicit addressing
AssigneeAccedian Networks Inc.
InventorsClaude Robitaille, Pierre Bouffard
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Abstract
A method of discovering a device in a communication network having multiple interconnected nodes includes continuously monitoring, by a device to be discovered, any IP packets sent by a discoverer. The method further includes transmitting, by the discoverer, an IP packet destined for a downstream device and receiving, by the device to be discovered, the IP packet. The method further includes determining, by the device to be discovered, whether the IP packet is intended for the device to be discovered. If the IP packet is not intended for the device to be discovered, retransmitting, by the device to be discovered, the IP packet to the downstream device via an egress port of the device to be discovered.
Claims21
1-32. (canceled)
A method of discovering a device in a communication network having multiple interconnected nodes, the method comprising:
- continuously monitoring, by a device to be discovered, any IP packets sent by a discoverer;
- transmitting, by the discoverer, an IP packet destined for a downstream device;
- receiving, by the device to be discovered, the IP packet;
- and
- determining, by the device to be discovered, whether the IP packet is intended for the device to be discovered.
A method of discovering a device in a communication network having multiple interconnected nodes, the method comprising:
- continuously monitoring, by a device to be discovered any IP packets sent by a discoverer inside a layer-3 tunnel established between the discoverer and a remote node;
- transmitting, by the discoverer, an IP packet to the remote node;
- receiving, by the device to be discovered, the IP packet;
- and
- determining, by the device to be discovered, whether the IP packet is intended for the device to be discovered.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.