Patents by Inventor S. Robert Austein

S. Robert Austein has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Computer network system and method using domain name system to locate MIB module specification and web browser for managing SNMP agents
    Patent number: 6003077
    Abstract: A standard SNMP management station is replaced by a client computer having a standard Web browser while utilizing the services of a Web/SNMP proxy agent in accordance with the present invention. The Internet locations of the ASN.1 specifications for various MIB modules, as well as other information resources associated with those MIB modules, are stored in resource records in a section of the DNS established for storing such information. The Web/SNMP proxy agent automatically locates the ASN.1 specification for each MIB module of any identified SNMP agent, by looking up the location in the DNS. The Web/SNMP proxy agent then compiles the ASN.1 MIB module specifications into HTML documents for viewing on the client computer. User requests for retrieving data from specified MIB objects and/or for sending data values to specified MIB objects are communicated from the client computer to the Web/SNMP proxy agent using standard HTTUP communications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 1997
    Date of Patent: December 14, 1999
    Assignee: Integrated Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Alan Bawden, Shawn A. Routhier, S. Robert Austein, Lowell S. Gilbert