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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 12, 2016
Filed:
Oct. 06, 2009
Srinivasan Narasimhan, Bangalore, IN;
Parthiv Hejmadi, Bangalore, IN;
Vinod Kumar A. Porwal, Bangalore, IN;
Srinivasan Narasimhan, Bangalore, IN;
Parthiv Hejmadi, Bangalore, IN;
Vinod Kumar A. Porwal, Bangalore, IN;
McAfee, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for collecting information of host devices. In one aspect, a method includes transmitting a plurality of information probes to the host device, including an agent probe that queries an agent installed on the host device for a unique agent identifier, monitoring for replies to the information probes from the host device during the host detection phase, ending the host detection phase in response to receiving a reply to the agent probe and that includes the unique agent identifier, resending the plurality of information probes and incrementing a repeat counter in response to not receiving a reply to the agent probe after the expiration of a time period and ending the host detection phase in response to a value of the repeat counter exceeding a maximum repeat value.