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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 21, 2018
Filed:
Jun. 13, 2016
Vmware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Jehad Affoneh, Kirkland, WA (US);
Wit Riewrangboonya, Mountain View, CA (US);
David Byard, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
VMware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
A method for suggesting network values for configuration parameters, associated with a computing device, that fail validation processes, including: accessing a negative validation, wherein the negative validation signifies that the network configuration parameters, of input, are found to be inconsistent with known network configuration parameters; comparing at least the negative validation with the input and a set of rules to achieve comparison results, wherein the set of rules comprises network configuration information associated with a network, network configuration information associated with the computing device and a predetermined listing of expected formats and expected content of the input; comparing the comparison results with a recommendation table, and based on the comparing the comparison results with the recommendation table, generating a recommendation.