System for automatically connecting portable device to network using network environment information including domain name of naming device and community name of network management protocol
First Claim
1. A method for automatically determining address information and network environment information in an internetwork of networks mutually connectable to each other under a network environment, said internetwork having at least one setting device, said method comprising:
- (a) managing, in said setting device connected to one of the networks, address information and network environment information used for each device connected to each network to operate under the network environment, the network environment information including information unique to each network, including protocol information;
(b) sending, from a setting-needed device moved from one of the networks to another network or newly joined to one of the networks, a request message for requesting address information and network environment information to said setting device;
(c) establishing, in said setting device, a correspondence between a host name of the setting-needed device and a network address of the setting-needed device and sending back a reply message to the setting-needed device from the setting device, the reply message including the address information containing the host name and the network address of the setting-needed device and the network environment information;
(d) storing, in the setting-needed device, the address information and the network environment information sent from said setting device, so that the setting-needed device can operate under the network environment; and
(e) reconfiguring the networks of the internetwork based on the information stored at step (d) to accommodate the setting-needed device after being moved from one of the networks to another one of the networks or newly joined to one of the networks, wherein said network environment information includes a domain name of a naming device and a community name of a network management protocol.
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Abstract
In a method for automatically address information and network environment information in networks mutually connectable to each other under a predetermined protocol network environment, step (a) is to manage, in a setting device connected to one of the networks, address information and network environment information used for each device connected on of the networks to operate under the predetermined protocol network environment. Step (b) sends, from a setting-needed device moved from one of the networks to another network or newly joined to one of the networks, a request message for requesting address information and network environment information to the setting device. Step (c) makes, in the setting device, a correspondence between a device name of the setting-needed device and a network address of the setting-needed device and sending back a reply message to the setting-needed device from the setting device, the reply message in order to send the address information containing the device name and the network address of the setting-needed device and the network environment information. Step (b) stores, in the setting-needed device, the address information and the network environment information sent from the setting device, so that the setting-needed device can operate under the predetermined network environment.
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9 Claims
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1. A method for automatically determining address information and network environment information in an internetwork of networks mutually connectable to each other under a network environment, said internetwork having at least one setting device, said method comprising:
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(a) managing, in said setting device connected to one of the networks, address information and network environment information used for each device connected to each network to operate under the network environment, the network environment information including information unique to each network, including protocol information; (b) sending, from a setting-needed device moved from one of the networks to another network or newly joined to one of the networks, a request message for requesting address information and network environment information to said setting device; (c) establishing, in said setting device, a correspondence between a host name of the setting-needed device and a network address of the setting-needed device and sending back a reply message to the setting-needed device from the setting device, the reply message including the address information containing the host name and the network address of the setting-needed device and the network environment information; (d) storing, in the setting-needed device, the address information and the network environment information sent from said setting device, so that the setting-needed device can operate under the network environment; and (e) reconfiguring the networks of the internetwork based on the information stored at step (d) to accommodate the setting-needed device after being moved from one of the networks to another one of the networks or newly joined to one of the networks, wherein said network environment information includes a domain name of a naming device and a community name of a network management protocol. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 5)
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4. A system for automatically determining address information and network environment information in networks mutually connectable to each other under a predetermined protocol network environment, the system comprising:
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first means for managing, in a setting device connected to one of the networks, address information and network environment information used for each device connected to one of the networks to operate under the predetermined protocol network environment; second means for sending, from a setting-needed device moved from one of the networks to another network or newly joined to one of the networks, a request message for requesting address information and network environment information from the setting device; third means for making, in the setting device, a correspondence between a host name of the setting-needed device and a network address of the setting-needed device and sending back a reply message to the setting-needed device from the setting device, the reply message containing address information containing a host name and a network address of the setting-needed device and network environment information; and fourth means for storing, in the setting-needed device, the address information and the network environment information sent from the setting device, so that the setting-needed device can operate under the predetermined network environment, wherein said network environment information includes a domain name of a naming device and a community name of a network management protocol. - View Dependent Claims (6)
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7. A method for automatically determining address information and network environment information in sub-networks of a network wherein the sub-networks are mutually connectable to each other under a predetermined protocol, comprising the steps of:
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(a) sending a request message from a portable device to the local manager for address information and network environment information, the portable device having been moved from one sub-network to another sub-network or newly joined to one of the sub-networks; (b) making a correspondence in the local manager between a host name of the portable device and a network address of the portable device; (c) sending back a reply message from the local manager to the portable device containing the host name and the network address of the portable device as determined in step (b) and other network information; (d) storing the address and network environment information in the portable device so that the portable device can operate under the predetermined network environment, wherein said network environment information includes a domain name of a naming device and a community name of a network management protocol. - View Dependent Claims (8)
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9. A method for determining identifying information in a network composed of sub-networks so as to enable the automatic connection of a portable device to a second sub-network having been moved from a first sub-network or newly joined, comprising the steps of:
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(a) communicating between a local network manager and the portable device wherein the local manager makes a correspondence between a host name of the portable device and a network address of the portable device and sends back to the portable device such correspondence along with other network environment information; (b) setting the portable device with such environment information so that the device can operate under a network environment, wherein said network environment information includes a domain name of a naming device and a community name of a network management protocol.
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