US Patent Issued to D-LINK on July 21 for "Automatic internet port identification method and device for performing the method" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,584, issued on July 21, was assigned to D-LINK Corp. (Taipei City, Taiwan).

"Automatic internet port identification method and device for performing the method" was invented by Hao-Chin Huang (Taipei, Taiwan) and Ting-Wei Liu (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automatic internet port identification method executed after being loaded by a system, includes a step 1: sending DHCP Discovery, PPPoE PADI, and RS packets to multiple ports of a physical network by a router, and a step 2: monitoring the ports and identifying the port that first receives one of DHCP ACK, PPPoE PADO, or RA packets as a WAN port, the remaining por...