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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 23, 2004
Filed:
Jan. 15, 2003
Applicant:
Inventors:
Stanley Smith Feather, Jr., Longmont, CO (US);
Jeffery Dicorpo, San Carlos, CA (US);
Assignee:
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/5173 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/5173 ;
Abstract
An apparatus capable of determining state of a device comprises a controller and a monitor executable on the controller. The monitor is capable of passively monitoring traffic between an initiator and the device, determining when the passively monitored traffic is insufficient for identifying state of the device, and actively issuing supplemental commands to the device to refresh device information when passively monitored traffic is insufficient. The monitor can also determine device state from the device information.