Patent ID: 8830869
Filing Date: 2014-09-09
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method of discovering and assigning an IP address to a device to be discovered in a communication network having multiple interconnected nodes, the method comprising: selecting, by a discoverer node, a first IP address for the assigning to the device to be discovered; continuously monitoring, by the device to be discovered, the network for address resolution protocol (ARP) requests; transmitting, by the discoverer node to the network, a plurality of ARP requests associated with the selected first IP address; receiving, by the device to be discovered, the plurality of ARP requests; determining, by the device to be discovered, whether the plurality of ARP requests are unanswered by other devices in the network; answering, by the device to be discovered, the plurality of ARP Requests with an ARP reply to claim the selected first IP address associated with the plurality of ARP Requests; and exchanging a pair of User Datagram Protocol (UDP) packets between the discoverer node and the device to be discovered.