Inventions on LDAP Administration- A TRIZ Based Analysis

Abstract

Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) is an IETF open standard to provide directory services in the network. LDAP was initially developed at the University of Michigan with an objective to include most of the features of X.500 directory structure, while eliminating the burdens and difficulties of the same. The LDAP protocols offer the following basic functional operations, viz., add, delete, modify, bind, unbind, search, compare, modify distinguished name, abandon and extended operations. The LDAP server stores the directory information in a database. It offers a rich set of searching capabilities and provides the capability for directory information to be queried (or updated). The client makes a TCP/IP connection and sends requests to an LDAP server. The LDAP server executes the search (or update) command and returns a response to the client. LDAP servers use a default port 389 to provide their service. This article is a TRIZ based study of patents on LDAP administration. This analyzes patents on LDAP administration, finds the trends of evolution and predicts the future lines of inventions on LDAP administration. This article is a part of the main study made on LDAP based on 60 patents selected from US patent database.