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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 04, 1997
Filed:
Apr. 19, 1995
Sunil Bhat, Colorado Springs, CO (US);
Neil McKee, Bristol, GB;
Hewlett-Packard Company, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
A system that monitors neighbor information frames (NIFs) sent by each station within a Fiber Distributed Data Interface (FDDI) network to determine the logical map of the network. After monitoring the NIFs for a period of time sufficient for all stations to have sent a NIF, the invention builds and displays a data structure containing the logical connections. If the system finds a missing connection within the network, it builds a gap structure within the data structure to display the missing connection. The system also sends a request to all stations on the network for station management information. After receiving this information from each station, the system builds and displays a data structure containing the physical connections between each of the stations within the network.
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