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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 15, 2019
Filed:
Feb. 08, 2018
Tom Haapanen, Kitchener, CA;
Jim Vopni, Kitchener, CA;
Tom Haapanen, Kitchener, CA;
Jim Vopni, Kitchener, CA;
RICOH COMPANY, LTD., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A network device managing system is provided for determining network addresses of network devices using network switches. The system comprises a server that determines network switches that communicate with the server, and receives network addresses of devices that are to be excluded from an address search. For each network switch: one or more first addresses of one or more devices that are configured on a switch are received from the switch. For each device, from the one or more devices configured on the switch, in response to determining that a first address of a device does not match any of the addresses of devices that are to be excluded from the address search, the server determines whether an association between the first address and a second address is stored in a server data repository, and if it is, the server transmits the second address to a global data repository.