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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 12, 2005
Filed:
Aug. 22, 2002
David Salim Hindawi, Berkeley, CA (US);
David Leigh Donoho, Berkeley, CA (US);
Lisa Ellen Lippincott, Berkeley, CA (US);
Orion Yosef Hindawi, Berkeley, CA (US);
Peter Benjamin Loer, Oakland, CA (US);
Dennis S. Goodrow, Santa Rosa, CA (US);
James Milton Brown, Novato, CA (US);
David Salim Hindawi, Berkeley, CA (US);
David Leigh Donoho, Berkeley, CA (US);
Lisa Ellen Lippincott, Berkeley, CA (US);
Orion Yosef Hindawi, Berkeley, CA (US);
Peter Benjamin Loer, Oakland, CA (US);
Dennis S. Goodrow, Santa Rosa, CA (US);
James Milton Brown, Novato, CA (US);
Bigfix, Inc., Emeryville, CA (US);
Abstract
The invention disclosed herein enables a collection of computers and associated communications infrastructure to offer a new communications process which allows a requestor to receive configuration information of a computational device from a responder. The requester first sends query documents that contain queries for configuration information of a computational device to the responder; the responder automatically collects the answers for the queries and sends a response document that contains the configuration information of the computational device to the requestor. The queries are written in a formal descriptive language which is transparent, safe for network evaluation, and extensible, and the configuration reader of the responder can parse the queries and automatically invoke a set of standard inspectors to obtain the corresponding configuration information.