MUMBAI, India, Oct. 5 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202541030000 A) filed by Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development Lp on March 28, 2025, for Switch Port Configuration Based On Silent Host Type.
Inventors include Sankaran, Balaji; Devarajan, Venkata Varadhan; and Bhaskar, Abhay.
The application for the patent was published on October 02, 2026, under issue no. 40/2026.
Abstract: A network switch includes a port to connect an electronic device. The network switch can detect that the electronic device is a silent host, and the network switch can classify the electronic device as a selected silent host type from different silent host types, the classifying based on identifying an interaction, from among different types of interactions, between the network switch and the electronic device. The different types of interactions indicate respective silent host types of the different silent host types. The network switch can set a configuration associated with the port based on the selected silent host type produced by the classifying.
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