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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 19, 2017
Filed:
Jun. 02, 2015
Mcafee, Llc, Santa Clara, CA (US);
James Michael Hugard, IV, Mission Viejo, CA (US);
Robin Keir, Glen Allen, VA (US);
Joshua Cajetan Rebelo, Bangalore, IN;
Ofir Arkin, Petah Tikva, IL;
Sven Schrecker, San Marcos, CA (US);
McAfee, LLC, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A pluggable asset detection engine is used to identify devices within a network. The pluggable asset detection engine includes a set of pluggable discovery sensors and is adapted to identify particular address information of a particular computing device within a network, using a first pluggable discovery sensor in the set of discovery sensors, and send an identification of the particular address information of the particular computing device to an asset management system for inclusion of the particular address information in an asset repository managed by the asset management system.