Patent ID: 7081808

Claim:
A self-registration system for dynamically updating information related to a network, comprising: a connector comprising an integrated circuit that stores a first block of information; an adapter coupled to the connector; a reader that receives the first block of information from the integrated circuit via the adapter; and a communication line coupled to the adapter via the connector, wherein the first block of information stored on the integrated circuit comprises a first block of information about network elements associated with the integrated circuit, and wherein the first block of information about network elements associated with the integrated circuit comprises information other than information identifying the connector, the adapter, the communication line and the integrated circuit; a computing device that receives the first block of information from the reader and stores the first block of information; and a writer that receives a second block of information from the computing device and wherein the writer transmits the second block of information via the adapter to the integrated circuit which stores the received second block of information.