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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 07, 2004
Filed:
Jun. 01, 1999
Shigeru Miyake, Tokyo, JP;
Tomohiro Morisada, Matsuyama, JP;
Satoru Tezuka, Yokohama, JP;
Satoshi Miyazaki, Yamato, JP;
Yoshiyuki Kurosaki, Fujisawa, JP;
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A network management system for managing a computer network in which media switching type infrastructures and media sharing type infrastructures are combined coexistently includes a database destined for network management in which correspondences established among information concerning physical interconnections of individual equipment on the network, information concerning logical network configuration such as that of virtual network, and information concerning the users who make use of the network are stored, identifying devices for identification of the individual equipment on the network and physical addresses intrinsic to network ports, respectively, and retrieval engines for searching information of the physical addresses of the network ports with queries for the logical addresses.