US 11,729,254 B2
Patternless prompt detection of command completion
Piotr Jerzy Kupisiewicz, Cracow (PL); Jonathan Maria Jan Slenders, Ghent (BE); and Frédéric René Philippe Detienne, Harze (BE)
Assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC., San Jose, CA (US)
Filed by Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US)
Filed on Apr. 11, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/717,480.
Application 17/717,480 is a continuation of application No. 17/224,455, filed on Apr. 7, 2021, granted, now 11,349,907.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/150,307, filed on Feb. 17, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0263887 A1, Aug. 18, 2022
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H04L 67/08 (2022.01); H04L 43/12 (2022.01)
CPC H04L 67/08 (2013.01) [H04L 43/12 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method comprising:
providing, by a computer device to a network device, a probe instruction for a command line interface of the network device;
obtaining, by the computer device from the network device, data output; and
determining, by the computer device, whether the network device completed a command output based on whether the data output includes a data sequence indicative of the command line interface being enabled to receive a next probe instruction.