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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 01, 2018
Filed:
Dec. 22, 2015
Applicant:
Ca, Inc., New York, NY (US);
Inventor:
Michael Paul Shevenell, Dover, NH (US);
Assignee:
CA, Inc., New York, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/173 (2006.01); H04L 12/24 (2006.01); G06F 9/46 (2006.01); G06F 21/00 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 41/12 (2013.01); G06F 9/468 (2013.01); G06F 21/00 (2013.01); H04L 41/0213 (2013.01);
Abstract
A request to identify a networking component of a network is received. An application programming interface signature is selected. The application programming interface signature comprises a characteristic. It is determined whether an application programming interface implemented by the networking component exhibits the characteristic. In response to a determination that the application programming interface implemented by the networking component exhibits the characteristic, it is indicated that the networking component implements the application programming interface.