Cisco Technology, Inc.

Chong Liang Li

Siddhartha Dattagupta

Allen Huotari

John Furlan

Kendra S Harrington

Dan Nguyen

Matthew Tebbs

Craig A Hobbs

Mark Carroll

Edward W James

Mark Chekhanovskiy

Insung Kim

Franklyn S Nelson

A method of automatically discovering home network device capabilities, ranking devices using the capabilities in accordance with ranking heuristics, and implementing traffic policy in accordance with the ranking.

Automatic mapping of human-meaningful parameters to network-meaningful parameters for traffic importance in home network

A smart network may include a smart network host device as well as one or more client devices configured to connect to the smart network. Each of the client devices may implement one or more services that the client device exposes to other devices connected to the smart network. A client device configured to connect to the smart network may implement one or more modules configured to facilitate connecting to the smart network, registering the client device or services running on the client device with the smart network, diagnosing issues with the client device or the smart network, and upgrading the firmware of the client device. The client device may be configured to perform the various operations with minimal input from an owner of the smart network.

Client device configured to connect with a home network

A smart network may include a smart network host device as well as one or more client devices configured to connect to the smart network. Each of the client devices may implement one or more services that the client device exposes to other devices connected to the smart network. Each of the client devices includes network layer 2 and 3 attributes as well as network layer 7 application attributes. The application attributes are enumerated as named services, which each client device registers with the smart network host device. When a client device needs access to a named service, the smart network host device uses layer 2, 3, and 7 attributes associated with the client device to select a suitable server for providing the named service to the client device.

Device and service management based on layer 2 through layer 7 device attributes

A method of describing highly valued traffic in a home network in terms that are meaningful for a human and that are translated to useful network parameters.

Mapping human-meaningful parameters to network-meaningful parameters to permit user to establish traffic importance in home network

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Chong Liang Li