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Chris Bowman

Frank Sheiness

Charles J Flynn

David Alan Daugherty

Recognition of users by assigned source port blocks identifies a specific network-attached device using date, time, WAN IP, and source port information associated with a user session. The method includes the steps of: receiving a date, time, WAN IP address, and source port associated with a user session; a computer searching a list of user sessions for one or more LAN IP addresses associated with the received WAN IP address that were in use at the received date and time; responsive to finding one or more matching IP addresses, a computer searching a list of assigned source ports for a match between a set of source ports assigned with the found LAN IP addresses and the received source port; and responsive to finding a matching source port, a computer identifying a source host device that is assigned the matching LAN IP address.

Recognition of users by assigned source port blocks

A system and method for messaging and obtaining message acknowledgement on a limited-area network managed by a network management device connected to a wide-area network. The system allows messages to target individual end user devices and receive message acknowledgement from end users. The method allows the recipient of an individually targeted message to prevent service interruption or to be rewarded by acknowledging receipt of a message.

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Round Rock, TX, United States of America

Chris Bowman