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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 01, 2008
Filed:
Jul. 13, 2006
Kaartik Viswanath, San Jose, CA (US);
Stanley Ratliff, Raleigh, NC (US);
Kaartik Viswanath, San Jose, CA (US);
Stanley Ratliff, Raleigh, NC (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A system and method are described for generating a unique name for a particular subordinate resource of a computer system having a plurality of subordinate resources associated with superior resources. A superior resource is identified that is associated with the particular subordinate resource, and the name of that superior resource is ascertained. A portion of the superior resource name is selected and combined with a unique counter value from a global counter, where the global counter provides a different counter value to each subordinate resource of the plurality of subordinate resources. In this manner, the generated subordinate resource name for the particular subordinate resource is unique across all subordinate resources of all superior resources, not only across subordinate resources of one of the superior resources.