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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 01, 2010
Filed:
Jun. 18, 2002
Bruno Richard, Crolles, FR;
Bruno Richard, Crolles, FR;
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
A method for identifying a device such as a computer in a network includes providing a storage containing a plurality of entries, each entry corresponding to a device connected to the network and comprising a plurality of stored attributes for the device, receiving from the device a set of current attributes associated to the device, for each among a plurality of entries in the storage, generating a similarity metric between current attributes of the received set and respective stored attributes comprised in the entry, the similarity metric taking into account both matches between respective attributes and mismatches between respective attributes. A candidate entry is determined for which the higher similarity metric is obtained. If the similarity metric is higher than a given recognition threshold, identifying the device as the one to which the candidate entry corresponds.