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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:
Jun. 02, 1998
Filed:
Nov. 12, 1997
Applicant:
Inventor:
Michael J Sidey, Middletown, NJ (US);
Assignee:
NCR Corporation, Dayton, OH (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ; G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
39520053 ; 39520032 ; 3952005 ; 39520051 ; 39520054 ; 3952008 ; 39518201 ; 39518701 ; 395670 ; 395672 ;
Abstract
An improved network node includes a network node autonomy portion and a sentinel autonomy portion. The network node autonomy portion can perform the tasks as a conventional network node. Both the autonomy portions contain their respective processors and MIBs. In a proper operational condition, the sentinel autonomy portion copies network management information from the MIB of the network node autonomy portion to the MIB of the sentinel autonomy portion. When faults or failures occur to the network node autonomy portion, the sentinel autonomy portion can still respond to polls from and send traps to a network management station.