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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 22, 2008
Filed:
Jun. 27, 2003
Narendra Lakshminarasimha, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
David Andrew Graves, Monte Sereno, CA (US);
Pallavi Gadepalli, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Vikram Ramesh, Cupertino, CA (US);
Margaret Mary Bertsch, Nashville, TN (US);
George Tomlinson, Livermore, CA (US);
Mark Pearson, Applegate, CA (US);
Ted Nguyen, Antelope, CA (US);
Narendra Lakshminarasimha, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
David Andrew Graves, Monte Sereno, CA (US);
Pallavi Gadepalli, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Vikram Ramesh, Cupertino, CA (US);
Margaret Mary Bertsch, Nashville, TN (US);
George Tomlinson, Livermore, CA (US);
Mark Pearson, Applegate, CA (US);
Ted Nguyen, Antelope, CA (US);
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
Methods and systems for verifying that devices in a network are properly connected physically are described. A listing is received from a device in the network. The listing identifies other devices coupled to the device and also identifies which communication port of the device each of the other devices is coupled to. The listing is compared against reference information representing the design of the network. Discrepancies between the listing and the reference information are identified.