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Network resource management system utilizing physical network identification for bridging operations

US9448958B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

International Business Machines Corporation · US

Inventors

Jerry W. Stevens · Raleigh, US
Patricia G. Driever · Poughkeepsie, US
Constantinos Kassimis · Cary, US
Gary Owen McAfee · Morrisville, US
Alexandra Winter · Schwieberdingen, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Jul 31, 2015
Grant date	Sep 20, 2016
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Jul 31, 2035

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG06F2009/45579
WIPO fieldDigital communication
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

The disclosed network resource management system employs a hardware configuration management (HCM) information handling system (IHS) that may couple to a single administered IHS or to multiple administered IHSs via an administrative network. An HCM tool in the HCM IHS may generate, modify and store hardware configuration information, including physical network identifications (PNet IDs), in an HCM database and share the HCM database with the administered IHSs. The administered IHS may be a bridging IHS. A bridging tool may extract hardware configuration information, including PNet IDs, from the HCM database. The bridging tool may utilize the hardware configuration information, including PNet IDs, to enable the bridging IHS to bridge networks internal to the bridging IHS with networks external to the bridging IHS.

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