ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,985, issued on July 15.
"Enhanced simple network management protocol (SNMP) connector" was invented by Ryan Lee Faircloth (DeLand, Fla.), Ankit Chetan Bhagat (Santa Clara, Calif.), Mayur Sanjaybhai Pipaliya (San Francisco) and Yuan Ling (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described for automating the configuration of a simple network management protocol (SNMP) manager device for enabling collection of SNMP data from one or more SNMP-enabled devices. Based upon SNMP object identifiers (OIDs) received from an SNMP-enabled device, processing is performed to map the OIDs to one or more SNMP management information...