US Patent 7590762 API for network discovery

Patent 7590762 was granted and assigned to Microsoft on September, 2009 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

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Patent attributes

Current Assignee

Microsoft

Patent Jurisdiction

United States Patent and Trademark Office

Patent Number

7590762

Date of Patent

September 15, 2009

Patent Application Number

11296790

Date Filed

December 7, 2005

Patent Primary Examiner

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Salad Abdullahi

Patent abstract

Discovery of a network to which a device is in communication and classifying the network is disclosed. The network may be classified as a network already known or a new network signature may be created where the network signature is made up of a network id, a link id and a hop id.