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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. 13, 2021

Filed:

Mar. 31, 2017
Applicant:

Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Inventors:

Mark D. Gray, Dublin, IE;

John J. Browne, Limerick, IE;

Maryam Tahhan, Limerick City, IE;

Assignee:

Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/26 (2006.01); H04L 12/931 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 43/0811 (2013.01); H04L 43/0817 (2013.01); H04L 49/70 (2013.01);
Abstract

Particular embodiments described herein provide for a network element that can be configured to receive a link monitoring message, determine one or more resources associated with the link monitoring message, determine a status of each of the one or more resources, and send a response that provides an indication of the status of each of the one or more resources. In an example, the link monitoring is part of a bidirectional forwarding detection packet.


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