Patent ID: 9742773
Date: 2017-08-22
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method of determining whether an unclassified computing device communicating in a communications network is a managed device having a managed network interaction, the method comprising: accessing information from a first-device signal from a first device communicating in a communications network, determining a candidate list including a plurality of managed devices in the communications network, inducing, by sending a request over the communications network, the plurality of managed devices in the candidate list to communicate identifiers; accessing the induced identifiers; classifying the first device as a managed device or as an unmanaged device based, at least in part, on the induced identifiers and the information from the first-device signal, wherein classifying comprises: responsive to classifying the first device as the first managed device, mapping the first identifier to a first managed-device identifier corresponding to the first managed device.