Patent ID: 9281994
Filing Date: 2016-03-08
CPC Classification: H04L

Claim Text:
1. A method for algebraically expressing a managed object in a keyed data set, the method comprising: specifying in algebraic processing logic executing in a host computing platform, a plurality of one-dimensional sets of managed objects each with a corresponding single partial object identifier with wildcard; incorporating by the algebraic processing logic each single partial object identifier with wildcard into an algebraic expression compositing a plurality of managed objects in a keyed data set of a management information base (MIB) containing a collection of managed objects that describe the characteristics of a device using the simple network management protocol (SNMP); parsing by the algebraic processing logic the algebraic expression into constituent algebraic sub-expressions and selecting ones of the sub-expressions for evaluation against the managed objects in the keyed data set of the MIB; evaluating by the algebraic processing logic the selected ones of the algebraic sub-expressions to generate an index for the composited managed objects in the keyed data set of the MIB; and, managing the composited index in a computer communications network by reference to the index.