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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:
Mar. 07, 2000
Filed:
Oct. 23, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
NEC Corporation, , JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ; H04J / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
709223 ; 709201 ; 709250 ;
Abstract
In a hierarchical network managing system, an upper layer manager manages at least one upper layer agent. An upper layer user interface is provided for the upper layer manager and can communicate with the upper layer manager. A lower layer manager manages at least one lower layer agent. A lower layer user interface is provided for the lower layer manager and can communicate with the lower layer manager and the upper layer user interface.