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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 04, 2008
Filed:
Oct. 05, 2000
David P. Ferguson, Berthoud, CO (US);
Peter M. Maddocks, Ft. Collins, CO (US);
Douglas Westley Rauenzahn, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
David P. Ferguson, Berthoud, CO (US);
Peter M. Maddocks, Ft. Collins, CO (US);
Douglas Westley Rauenzahn, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
The present disclosure relates to a system and method for detecting devices connected to a network. The method comprises sending a scan request to a remote command process running on a remote network host, scanning the network host with the remote command process to determine if devices are connected to the host, and receiving a response to the scan request from the remote command process that indicates whether a device is connected to the network host. In a preferred arrangement, the remote command process sends a scan request to a host application program interface to receive device addresses. With these addresses, the remote command process requests information from the devices.