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Method for assigning clients distributed across a plurality of networks to a server and a client for implementing the method

US7953797B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

Siemens Enterprise Communications GmbH & Co. KG · DE

Inventors

Stefan Berndt · Ascheberg, DE
Thomas Hanna · Festus, US
Thorsten Laux · Hamburg, DE
Christian Scheering · Bielefeld, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Jul 15, 2004
Grant date	May 31, 2011
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Apr 5, 2029

Classification

Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
CPC primaryH04L67/1059
WIPO fieldDigital communication
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

To assign clients distributed across a plurality of subnetworks to a server, one of the clients is first selected in a respective subnetwork. A search is carried out across the subnetworks by a respective selected client for other selected clients and for the server, whereby when it locates the server, the selected client stores server address information identifying said server and when it locates another selected client, it requests the server address information from that client and stores it on receipt. The stored server address information is transmitted by the selected client to one or a plurality of other selected or non-selected clients.

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