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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 07, 2000
Filed:
Apr. 15, 1997
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Methods, systems and computer program products which identify network routing paths having a first performance characteristic less than a first specified limit and a second performance characteristic less than a second specified limit from a plurality of routing paths. These routing paths are identified by combining both the first performance characteristic and the second performance characteristic for one of the plurality of routing paths to provide a third performance characteristic which differs from both the first and the second performance characteristic and which operates as a proxy for the first and second performance characteristic. It is then determined if the third performance characteristic of the routing path is less than a third performance limit associated with the third performance characteristic.