Patent ID: 8914728
Filing Date: 2014-12-16
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for managing a network, the method comprising: detecting a new resource on a network comprising a plurality of existing resources, wherein each of the plurality of existing resources comprises a plurality of key/value pairs associated with an identifying feature of the existing resource, including at least one unique key/value pair; creating a map of the at least one unique key/value pair for each of the plurality of existing resources of the network; determining whether the new resource is a partial view of the at least one existing resource by comparing only one unique key/value pair of a plurality of key/value pairs associated with the new resource to the map of the at least one unique key/value pair for each of the plurality of existing resources and, in the event that the unique key/value pair associated with the new resource matches one of the key/value pair associated with one of the plurality of existing resources of the network, comparing each remaining key/value pair of the plurality of key/value pairs associated with the new resource to each remaining key/value pair of the plurality of key/value pairs associated with the one of the plurality of existing resources of the network; and correlating the new resource with the at least one existing resource as a management access point for the at least one existing resource.