Patent ID: 7877369
Filing Date: 2011-01-25
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. An apparatus for hosted searching of different private local area network (LAN) information comprising: a LAN crawler to automatically and repeatedly crawl a LAN having a plurality of devices, said LAN crawler including, a hosted on-demand search system to be coupled to the Internet including, a set of one or more centralized-search servers including, wherein the descriptive information of the first plurality of items of interest include technical information regarding the plurality of private LANs, users of the plurality of private LANs, and the plurality of devices of the plurality of private LANs; wherein the plurality of disparate information sources include a routing table of a router, a router configuration file of a router, an address resolution protocol (ARP) table of a switch, a bridging table of a switch, a switch configuration table of a switch, a software configuration file of a server, a resource utilization counter of a server, a log file of a server, custom application file of a server, user information of a directory server, group information of a directory server, a software configuration file of a workstation, a registry of a workstation, an operating system interface database of a workstation, a directory of a workstation, a resource utilization counter of a workstation, a log file of a workstation, and a configuration file of a network printer.