Patent ID: 8544064

Claim:
A system comprising: and a server, communicatively coupled to plural appliances via a network and to complete an appliance registration database pertaining to the plural appliances, the server configured to access the registration database, the registration database including a record for each of the plural appliances wherein each record includes information pertaining to a respective appliance, the server being configured to query each of the plural appliances, to receive an identifier and a network address from each of the plural appliances in response to the query, the server being configured, based on responses from the plural appliances to the query, to determine a geographical location of each of the plural appliances, and to store the determined geographical location and received network address of each of the plural appliances in the record in the registration database corresponding to each respective appliance by matching, the identifier received from each respective appliance to the information in the respective record of the respective appliance; and the server being configured, subsequent to adding the geographical location information to the registration database, to send over the network, based on the geographical location information in the registration database, geographic-based registration information to appliances within a geographic region to which the geographic-based registration information applies.