Inventions on using LDAP for Different Purposes (Part-2) - A TRIZ Based Analysis of US Patents

This article is a part of the main study made on LDAP based on 60 patents selected from US patent database. Unlike other parts of the study which have tried to improve certain aspect of LDAP technology and application, this article includes the inventions that use LDAP for various different purposes. This article is divided into 3 parts for convenience of size. The first part of the article includes 6 patents using LDAP for "e-commerce" and "Policy Management". The second part includes 10 patents using LDAP for "Network Management" and "Telecommunications". The third part of the article includes 11 patents using LDAP for "World Wide Web" and "Java and CORBA". This is the second part of the article which analyses patents using LDAP for "Network Management" and patents using LDAP for "Telecommunications". The objective of this article is to know how is LDAP used for Network Management and Telecommunications. The analysis of patents shows which Inventive Principles have been used to solve those inventions.