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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 10, 2018
Filed:
Apr. 15, 2014
Applicant:
Virtual Instruments Corporation, San Jose, CA (US);
Inventors:
Genti Cuni, Mountain View, CA (US);
Leo Szumel, South Lake Tahoe, CA (US);
Adam H. Schondelmayer, Campbell, CA (US);
Assignee:
Virtual Instruments Corporation, San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/173 (2006.01); H04L 12/24 (2006.01); H04L 12/26 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 41/12 (2013.01); H04L 43/12 (2013.01);
Abstract
Automatically identifying a location of a network monitor within a network topology is described. A location of a network monitor within a network topology (which can, and often does, change structure, constituent devices, or both) is determined by monitoring transmissions passing through the network link to which the network monitor is connected. The network monitor uses locally unique device identifiers present in a network transmission to identify the devices or ports most commonly communicating with each other.