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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 29, 2007
Filed:
Mar. 14, 2001
Applicant:
Andrew W. Wilson, Fremont, CA (US);
Inventor:
Andrew W. Wilson, Fremont, CA (US);
Assignee:
Adaptec, Inc., Milpitas, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/173 (2006.01); H04L 9/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method for target device discovery on a network is disclosed. The method includes multicasting a signal from a master initiator over the network. A unicast is received from a new target recently connected to the network where the new target is passive when no multicast signal from the master initiator is received. Then the new target is added to a list of targets connected to the network. The method concludes by sending out a next multicast to other initiators where the next multicast includes information regarding the adding of the new target to the network.