ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,460, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to MITAC COMPUTING TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

"Method and system for automatically requesting network management data" was invented by Yuen-Ching Janny Au (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for automatically requesting network management data is implemented using a system including a network management server and a client device connected to the network management server. The method includes: after being powered on, by the client device automatically generating and transmitting a request packet to the network management server, the request packet including both a fir...