Method to remotely query, safely measure, and securely communicate configuration information of a networked computational device
CA 2474554 A1 · Owner: Bigfix, Inc. · Inventors: Brown, James Milton; Donoho, David Leigh; Lippincott, Lisa Ellen
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The invention disclosed herein enables a collection of computers and associated communications infrastructure to offer a new communications process which allows a requestor (102) to receive configuration information of a computational device from a responder (103 and 107). The requestor (102) first sends query documents that contain queries for configuration information of a computational device (101) to the responder (103 and 107); the responder automatically collects the answers for the queries and sends a response document that contains the configuration information of the computational device to the requestor. The queries are written in a formal descriptive language which is …
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- Filed August 23, 2002. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended August 23, 2022.
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