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Remote management of communication devices

  • US 20060085532A1
  • Filed: 05/02/2005
  • Published: 04/20/2006
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/30/2004
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A computer network system for managing a plurality of communications processes operative on a plurality of devices coupled via a network, the computer network system comprising:

  • one or more tree-based data structures, each of the one or more tree-based data structures including a plurality of nodes arranged in a pre-defined hierarchy for storing a state of one or more communications processes from the plurality of communications processes, wherein the one or more communications processes implements one of a router, a network switch, a firewall, a network encryption process, a mobile communications device;

    an application programming interface including a plurality of operations for querying and updating the plurality of nodes in the one or more tree-based data structures;

    for reach of the one or more tree-based data structures, one or more network management agents for querying and updating the state of the one or more communications processes based on a state of the one or more data structures, wherein the one or more network management agents are operative to pre-empt low priority queries to the one or more communications processes in response to high-priority update requests for the one or more configuration processes immediately upon receipt of the high priority update requests from the application programming interface;

    one or more user interfaces for viewing a content of each of the one or more data structures and performing the plurality of operations, the one or more user interfaces in communication with the one or more data structures via the application programming interface.

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