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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Feb. 26, 2019

Filed:

May. 02, 2016
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Daniel S. Critchley, Winchester, GB;

Gordon D. Hutchison, Eastleigh, GB;

Gareth P. Jones, Chandlers Ford, GB;

Jonathan W. L. Short, Eastleigh, GB;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/30 (2006.01); H04L 12/707 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/3051 (2013.01); G06F 11/3089 (2013.01); H04L 45/22 (2013.01);
Abstract

An embodiment of the invention may include a method, computer program product and computer system for a cable removal system. The embodiment may include a computing device that determines whether a user is contacting a network cable. The network cable is physical connection between a first device and a second device. The first device includes at least one network port. The embodiment may include a computing device determining whether an information transmission across the network cable can be rerouted based on determining that the user is contacting the network cable. The embodiment may include a computing device rerouting information transmission based on determining that the information transmission across the network cable can be rerouted. The embodiment may include a computing device alerting the user that there is no information transmission across the network cable based on rerouting the information transmission.


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