Method and apparatus for collecting inventory information for insurance purposes

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United States of America Patent

APP PUB NO 20060161462A1
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11039128

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A method and appartus for automatically gathering data about assets of a data center for use in assessing risks in writing insurance policies. The method uses collection servers coupled to the network or networks of the data center. The collection servers are informed of the IP address range and ping all addresses to find addresses at which active machines reside. Then a plurality of protocols are executed to send packets to the active IP addresses in accordance with a plurality of different protocols in an attempt to elicit meaningful responses. If a meaningful packet arrives back from a machine, the protocols try to decipher it to determine what protocols the machine understands. Once the protocol(s) the machine understands are known, packets are sent to invoke function calls of known APIs of that protcol to extract information about the machine. If more information is needed, login ID and passwords are obtained for the machines of interest, and the collection servers log into the machine of interest, and invoke function calls of the known APIs of the operating system of the machine to extract more data about the machine. The gathered data is analyzed and sent to the insurance company.

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BDNA CORPORATION A DELAWARE CORPORATION339 NORTH BERNARDO AVENUE SUITE 206 MOUNTAIN VIEW CA 94043

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Sharma, Arvind Menlo Park, CA 11 111

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