Patent ID: 11916788
Assignee: MICRO FOCUS LLC
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 6:
7. An apparatus comprising:
a processor; and
a memory storing machine-readable instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to:
receive a first IP address using a type of a discovery process for discovery of network configuration information, the first IP address having a first attribute for a private IP address;
determine the type of the discovery process used for discovery of the network configuration information;
based on the determined type of the discovery process used for discovery of the network configuration information, determine a second attribute of the first IP address, the second attribute of the first IP address comprising a different type of information on a routing domain for the first IP address based on the determined type of the discovery process;
determine whether the first IP address and a second IP address, which has a same IP address value as the first IP address, are duplicates of each other based on the second attribute of the first IP address; and
based on a determination that the first IP address is a duplicate of the second IP address, merge the first IP address with the second IP address, the second IP address being replaced with the first IP address.