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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:
Apr. 30, 2002
Filed:
Oct. 30, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Nortel Networks Limited, St. Laurent, CA;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04I 1/228 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04I 1/228 ;
Abstract
A trail explorer and method for exploring trails in a communication network is described. The trail explorer is provided in a trail managing system having a trail database for storing connections in the network. The trail explorer compares the connections stored in the database and those actually provisioned in the network. When a connection exists in the network but is missing from the database, the trail explore triggers a learn process. If a connection exists in the database but is missing from the network, it marks the connection and trails using the connection as “unprovisioned” if they are not already marked so, or delete trails if they are network learned trails.