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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. 20, 2000
Filed:
Nov. 12, 1997
Applicant:
Inventor:
Arun Chandra, Austin, TX (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L / ; H04Q / ; G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
370330 ; 370436 ; 370395 ; 709232 ; 714-4 ;
Abstract
Links in a network are switched between nodes in response to traffic and failure status of network links as follows. A total message time is calculated for a given network configuration. Nodes are identified having the most and the least messages. A new network configuration is considered, wherein a link from the minimum traffic nodes is reconfigured to the maximum traffic nodes. A maximum link and/or maximum connectivity rule are evaluated for the possible new configuration. If such a rule is not violated and the total message time is improved by the new configuration, the analysis is repeated for possible third, fourth, etc. configurations.