Automatic configuration system and method
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsAllen J. Piepho, Paul Boerger, Edward S. Beeman, William L. Devlin
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Abstract
One aspect of the invention is an automatic configuration method. The method comprises monitoring a network for data sent by a server in response to a configuring notice, receiving the data, and automatically configuring a processing platform to the network based on the data. Another aspect of the invention is an automatic configuration system. The system comprises a processing platform and application logic operatively associated with the processing platform. The application is operable to monitor a network for data sent by a server in response to a configuring notice, receive the data, and automatically configure the processing platform to the network based on the data.
Claims17
An automatic configuration method, comprising:
- sending, by a first processing platform, a configuring notice over a network;
- monitoring, by a second processing platform, the network for data sent by a server in response to the configuring notice;
- receiving the data at the second processing platform;
- and
- automatically configuring the second processing platform to the network based on the data.
An automatic configuration system, comprising:
- a first processing platform;
- and
- application logic operatively associated with the first processing platform and operable to:
- monitor a network for data sent by a server in response to a configuring notice sent over the network by a second processing platform;
- receive the data;
- and
- automatically configure the first processing platform to the network based on the data.
An automatic configuration application, comprising:
- a computer-readable medium;
- and
- a software application resident on the computer-readable medium and operable to:
- monitor a network for data sent by a server in response to a configuring notice sent over the network by a first processing platform;
- receive the data;
- and
- automatically configure a second processing platform to the network based on the data.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.