Patent ID: 7260621
Filing Date: 2007-08-21
Classification: H04L,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A method of interfacing with network management information on a network device, comprising: receiving a non-object oriented management information base (MIB) at a network device, the non-object oriented MIB including information related to one or more aspects of the network device; extracting a subset of information from the non-object oriented MIB describing at least one aspect of the network device by lexically recognizing a set of tokens corresponding to a set of network parameters that describes aspects of the network device and parsing the tokens according to a hierarchical relationship between the set of network parameters; and producing an object-oriented interface, for use by an object-oriented application to access the subset of information in the non-object oriented MIB, by generating a set of object-oriented classes and object-oriented methods corresponding to the set of tokens.