Patent ID: 11936510
Assignee: ARRIS ENTERPRISES LLC
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. An electronic device, including:
a memory, on which instructions are stored; and
a processor, configured to execute the instructions stored on the memory to cause the electronic device to execute the following operations:
receiving a Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) request from a network management station;
in response to the receipt of the SNMP request, starting a timer at the electronic device, a timeout period of the timer being set to a first predetermined time period;
in response to a case where the electronic device has not completed an operation required by the SNMP request when the timer expires, sending a timeout message to the network management station as a response to the SNMP request; and
in response to the receipt of a retransmitted SNMP request with the same request ID as the SNMP request from the network management station before the timer expires, stopping processing the SNMP request, and sending the timeout message to the network management station as a response to the retransmitted SNMP request.