Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Network topology discovery
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Application No.: US17123917Application Date: 2020-12-16
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Publication No.: US11522783B2Publication Date: 2022-12-06
- Inventor: Mark Jason Sanders , Denise Michelle Masi , Eric Richard McCabe , Erica Jean Maciejewski , Nathan Scott Dellinger , Daniel Antonio Negrón
- Applicant: NOBLIS, INC.
- Applicant Address: US VA Reston
- Assignee: NOBLIS, INC.
- Current Assignee: NOBLIS, INC.
- Current Assignee Address: US VA Reston
- Agency: Morrison & Foerster LLP
- Main IPC: H04L45/02
- IPC: H04L45/02

Abstract:
The present disclosure relates to capturing the routing topology of a network (e.g., the Internet covering the entire IPv4 address space). An exemplary method comprises: obtaining a first bit array indicative of a plurality of target IP addresses; assigning a first subset of the plurality of target IP addresses to a first source device; assigning a second subset of the plurality of target IP addresses to a second source device; causing the first source device to transmit a first plurality of probing packets to the first subset of the plurality of target IP addresses and receive a first plurality of returned packets, causing the second source device to transmit a second plurality of probing packets to the second subset of the plurality of target IP addresses and receive a second plurality of returned packets, and generating a data structure representing a routing topology of the network.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210184961A1 NETWORK TOPOLOGY DISCOVERY Public/Granted day:2021-06-17
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