Patent ID: 7290049
Filing Date: 2007-10-30
Classification: G06F,H04L,Y10S

Abstract:
1. In a computing environment, a method of determining which object classes are supported by a given network device, comprising: a) traversing a tree of groups and subgroups to build lexicographically ordered ranges; b) creating a range table of groups and mutually exclusive ranges of object identifiers corresponding to each group; c) selecting an object identifier from the range table representing the starting object within a range corresponding to a group within the table; d) requesting the network device to return its next highest object identifier beyond the selected object identifier; e) receiving a returned object identifier corresponding to the next highest object identifier; f) determining whether the returned object identifier falls into a range in the range table, and when so, maintaining information that object classes within a group corresponding to that range is supported; and g) returning to b) using remaining ranges to provide starting object identifiers until the range table has no untested range entries remaining.