HARDWARE CONNECTING COMPUTERS

Brand	Owner	Address	Description
CENTRAL STATION	ARTISOFT, INC.	5 Cambridge Center Cambridge MA 02142	hardware for connecting computers and peripheral devices to a local area network and configuration software therefor;
	Where the owner name is not linked, that owner no longer owns the brand

Technical Examples

A system and method for handling a query seeking information about computers of a network, where the query can be optimized in a way which limits the set of computers examined to a set smaller than all known computers. The query is examined to determine a limited list of computers to be accessed that would yield the complete result. If the query can be satisfied using data from a number of computers which is less than all of the computers in the network, then the number of computers which is less than all of the computers in the network is accessed to satisfy the query. In this manner, the data collection process for satisfying the query is generally more efficient than accessing all of the computers in the network.