CHRISTOPHER J BATES
Broker in Ashland, MA
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Massachusetts 9078981
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Jul 1, 2005
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Aug 15, 2007
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Method And System For Automatic Polling Of Multiple Device Types
US Patent:
2009010, Apr 16, 2009
Filed:
Sep 7, 2008
Appl. No.:
12/205893
Inventors:
Sushma Annareddy - Milford MA, US
Gary Cunha - Medway MA, US
Christopher Bates - Ashland MA, US
Gary Cunha - Medway MA, US
Christopher Bates - Ashland MA, US
International Classification:
G06F 15/173
US Classification:
709224
Abstract:
A common poller polls multiple network devices of a communication network regardless of device type. A device personality service associates information corresponding to each of the devices with unique identifiers thereof. The common poller provides information resulting from polling the devices to network management systems (“NMS”) that request status and health information thereof. A poller client interface isolates the NMS from a common datastore coupled to the common poller and processes the information between the datastore and the NMS so the datastore is not directly exposed to the NMS. A scheduled poller causes the common poller to poll each network device according to a predetermined schedule. An on-demand poller may poll the devices between scheduled polling events. If a predetermined period as not passed since previous scheduled polling, the poller client interface forwards previously stored information from the common datastore to an NMS requesting status for a given device.