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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:
Apr. 23, 2019

Filed:

Jul. 24, 2015
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

James S. Luke, Isle of Wight, GB;

Jean-Francois Puget, Saint Raphael, FR;

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/751 (2013.01); H04L 12/733 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 45/02 (2013.01); H04L 45/20 (2013.01);
Abstract

According to one embodiment of the present invention, a system determines groups of nodes within a network, each group forming a bi-connected component. The system identifies articulation nodes within the network, where each articulation node resides within each connection between a pair of nodes in the network. The system removes from the determined group each node that includes an articulation node between that node and both the source and target nodes to produce a resulting set of nodes. The system determines connections between the source and target nodes based on the resulting set of nodes. Embodiments of the present invention further include a method and computer program product for determining connections between network nodes in substantially the same manners described above.


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