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Pre-Grant Publication Number: 20070255832

Method for configuring a windfarm network

Filing Date: April 30, 2006

Inventors: Andre Riesberg, Anke Eggengoor

Assignee(s): GE

Current U.S. Classification: 709, 709/226000

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Fulton Wilcox (about 5 years ago)

Regarding Claim 00001 There is no evident novelty to this claim. Indeed, if from a standards perspective, the devices involved conformed to widespread ethernet and related standards, the claims described would in effect be "out of the box" capabilities. As an example of long-existing state of the art:, "When a customer
plugs in a device, the ESLAM reports the customer's device MAC when it
sees it. The DHCP server records the MAC <=> IP binding." http://www.ieee802.org/3/efm/public/email/msg00516.html . Although the patent descriotion rejects the relevance of DHCP because of its use of an IP address "lease" mechanism, in fact DHCP permirs very long leases as wee as enabling client devices to renew leases. It therefore appears that this claim represents a non-standard recreation of long existing standards based handshakes and inventory methods found in ethernet networks (and probably some predecessor environments such as SNA.

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