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US 2016/0098335 A1Published application
Method for automatic decommissioning of network participants
AssigneeGoogle Inc.
InventorMichael Sleator
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Abstract
Disclosed is a memory device in which the state of the memory may be set by a mechanical action, with or without mains power present. The memory state may be detected by a microcontroller. The state for the memory device may be reset by a microcontroller. The microcontroller may be external to an apparatus containing the memory device, adjacent to or within the apparatus.
Claims21
A method comprising:
- detecting insertion of a device into an appliance based upon a circuit within the device being closed due to pressure applied to a compression element within the device;
- based upon detecting the insertion of the device into the appliance, commissioning the device into a computer network;
- subsequent to commissioning the device into the computer network, causing a physical state of a mechanism within the device to change from a first physical state to a second physical state;
- and
- detecting removal of the device from the appliance based upon the physical state of the mechanism changing from the second physical state;
- and
- based upon detecting the removal of the device from the appliance, decommissioning the device from the computer network.
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A system comprising:
- a device comprising a circuit configured to be closed due to pressure applied to a compression element within the device;
- an appliance configured to receive the device;
- and
- a processor configured to:
- based upon detecting the insertion of the device into the appliance, commission the device into a computer network;
- detect removal of the device from the appliance based upon a physical state of a mechanism of the device changing from a first state to a second state;
- and
- based upon detecting the removal of the device from the appliance, decommissioning the device from the computer network.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.