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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 19, 2024
Filed:
Jun. 21, 2019
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Masahiro Yokota, Tokyo, JP;
Masatoshi Namiki, Tokyo, JP;
Yuji Minato, Tokyo, JP;
Masaaki Inami, Tokyo, JP;
Daisaku Shimazaki, Tokyo, JP;
Hideki Maeda, Tokyo, JP;
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
The network device information management apparatus includes: a log data acquisition unit configured to acquire log data from each of the plurality of devices, the log data including information about components of the plurality of devices; and an inventory information estimation unit configured to exclude a common portion of the log data before and after registration of the component to extract a component configuration indicating information about the component newly registered to the device, compare the extracted component configuration with the component configuration extracted from a component registered to another device, estimate the common portion as inventory information, and store the estimated inventory information in storage means.