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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 20, 2004
Filed:
Feb. 08, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
David James Stevenson, Edinburgh, GB;
Andrew Hunter Gray, West Lothian, GB;
Robert James Duncan, Edinburgh, GB;
Alastair Hugh Chisholm, Edinburgh, GB;
Vanessa Serra, Edinburgh, GB;
Colin Tinto, Edinburgh, GB;
Assignee:
3Com Corporation, Marlborough, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/5173 ; G06F 1/730 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/5173 ; G06F 1/730 ;
Abstract
A method for fetching sparsely indexed MIB tables for a managed network device using an approximation operation, such as a GetNext SNMP operation, comprises sending a plurality of operations in a first data packet at least one of the plurality of approximation operations specifying a speculative approximation. By using speculative approximations of index values of data to be fetched, it is possible to retrieve MIB table data more quickly and efficiently.