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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 22, 2017
Filed:
Feb. 18, 2015
Broadcom Corporation, Irvine, CA (US);
Stephen Ray Palm, Irvine, CA (US);
AVAGO TECHNOLOGIES GENERAL IP (SINGAPORE) PTE. LTD., Singapore, SG;
Abstract
The subject system allows network devices utilizing any number of networking technologies (including to-be-developed technologies) to access a common abstraction layer and/or the network operations facilitated by a common abstraction layer. The subject system allows a device that is added to a network to communicate whether existing devices on the network should retrieve communication protocol information for facilitating communication with the added device from a remote server. For example, the devices may locally store communication protocol information for certain network technologies, e.g. legacy network technologies, while information corresponding to other network technologies may not be locally stored. The added device may provide a resource locator to the existing devices for accessing the communication protocol information from the remote server. The existing network devices may retrieve the communication protocol information via the resource locator, and may utilize the communication protocol information to facilitate communication with the added device.