Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Deriving unique local addresses from device names
- Patent Title (中): 从设备名称中导出唯一的本地地址
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Application No.: US13212432Application Date: 2011-08-18
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Publication No.: US08688807B2Publication Date: 2014-04-01
- Inventor: Michael H. Behringer , Steinthor Bjarnason , Alvaro Retana , Yves Francis Eugene Hertoghs
- Applicant: Michael H. Behringer , Steinthor Bjarnason , Alvaro Retana , Yves Francis Eugene Hertoghs
- Applicant Address: US CA San Jose
- Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA San Jose
- Agency: Baker Botts L.L.P.
- Main IPC: G06F15/177
- IPC: G06F15/177
Abstract:
In one embodiment, accessing a device name, which includes a hostname and a domain name, of a network device; applying a hash function to the domain name to obtain 40 bits as a Global ID of an Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) unique local address (ULA); and encoding the hostname to obtain 80 bits as a Subnet ID and an Interface ID of the IPv6 ULA.
Public/Granted literature
- US20130046864A1 Deriving Unique Local Addresses From Device Names Public/Granted day:2013-02-21
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