Pre-Grant Publication Number: 20070271363
Filing Date: May 19, 2006
Inventors: Kevin Ross, Jason Grazado
Assignee: GE
Current U.S. Classification: 709, 709/223000
View Prior Art for Claim 00018
The method of Claim 13, further comprising:
dynamically scanning a network with a third network scanner; and
determining a second new network address, wherein the second new network address is discovered by the third network scanner and not discovered by either the first scanner or the second scanner;
updating the first scanner with the second address; and
updating the second scanner with the second address,
wherein the third network scanner performs a third separate function.
Patent/Application # 5185860
Description
The prior art reference relates to automatic discovery of new nodes connected to a network by using network probes. The addresses of the discovered nodes are stored in a listed database for sharing among other probes.
Patent/Application # 20070171842
Description
The prior art reference discloses methods and systems for discovery of network nodes in subnets of the network by means of network scanning agents which discover the network address and add addresses to a scan server.The scan server communicates the network addresses to other scanning agents.
