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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. 05, 2009
Filed:
Feb. 08, 2002
Applicants:
Graham Haley, Edinburgh, GB;
Neil Jarvis, Edinburgh, GB;
Inventors:
Graham Haley, Edinburgh, GB;
Neil Jarvis, Edinburgh, GB;
Assignee:
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method and apparatus for automatically assigning a locally administered MAC address to at least one client in a local area network ('LAN') system, and a method and apparatus for detecting duplicate locally administered MAC addresses, where the LAN system comprises at least one client and may comprise at least one server.