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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 26, 2024
Filed:
Aug. 18, 2021
Cattron North America, Inc., Warren, OH (US);
David Stagg, Flat Rock, NC (US);
Cattron North America, Inc., Warren, OH (US);
Abstract
An exemplary method relates to associating diverse devices each including a unique public media access control address (Public MAC address). In this exemplary embodiment, the method includes providing a plurality of devices with a shared private media access control address (Shared Private MAC address) such that the Shared Private MAC address is known to each of the devices and usable for initiating a learning interchange during which the devices exchange their unique Public MAC addresses with each other and are thereby associated with each other; and/or using a shared private media access control address (Shared Private MAC address) known to each of a plurality of devices to initiate a learning interchange that includes the devices exchanging their unique Public MAC addresses with each other and thereby associating the devices with each other.