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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 14, 2025
Filed:
Jan. 26, 2023
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Bugra Karabey, Redmond, WA (US);
Andre Oneal Alfred, Redmond, WA (US);
Tvisha Rajesh Gangwani, Philadelphia, PA (US);
Priyatham Reddy Allala, Monroe, WA (US);
Sasikumar Natarajan, Redmond, WA (US);
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Embodiments provide for the self-registration and automatic inventorying of enterprise Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices in an enterprise environment. An asset inventory agent on a network among many networks (i.e., within the enterprise environment) can receive a data packet from a computing device. The data packet is communicated via the network shared between the asset inventory agent and the computing device. The asset inventory agent can analyze the data packet, which can reveal a communication protocol associated with the computing device. A discovery rule associated with the protocol can be selected to extract inventory information from the data packet. The inventory information can be utilized to generate a distributed ledger transaction, which is communicated to a set of nodes adapted to collectively store the inventory information associated with the computing device onto the distributed ledger.