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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 10, 2012
Filed:
Mar. 07, 2005
Terje K. Backman, Carnation, WA (US);
Terje K. Backman, Carnation, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
The invention provides one or more modules that may be used to automatically configure a computing device to communicate over a network. When a polling computer is connected to a network, it monitors network traffic to determine the protocols being used on the network. These protocols are then installed and loaded onto the polling computer. The polling computer may find voting computers on the network and send queries to the voting computers to discover network information such as network settings and network resources. The polling computer stores the results in a data structure, which may be sorted and is searchable to find the most popular network settings and resources used on the network. Network settings and resources may be automatically applied to the polling computer or the user may be provided with a user interface allowing the user to select particular settings and/or resources.