Pre-Grant Publication Number: 20070255832
Filing Date: April 30, 2006
Inventors: Andre Riesberg, Anke Eggengoor
Assignee(s): GE
Current U.S. Classification: 709, 709/226000
Facilitator's Comment 
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Fulton Wilcox (about 5 years ago)
Regarding Claim 00003 The capability to receive a polling command and to respond with appropriate data is inherent to any "managed object." At the network physical layer, the MAC (media access control") device plays this managed object rolle. THE MAC-IP address relationship is fundamental to the client-seber relationship described in this claim, and it qualifies as rather ancient state of the art. http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2358.html
