Conventionally, crowded network traffic occurs because duplicated data exchange is performed between network management software and network devices. A network-device management method according to the present invention includes a search step of searching a device connected to a network, an acquisition...http://www.google.de/patents/US6574662?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US6574662 - System for network-device management including collecting and storing of device attributes that change with time and device attributes that hardly change with time
