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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 04, 2003
Filed:
Jun. 29, 1999
Eugene N. Cookmeyer, II, Apex, NC (US);
Michelle Lee-Farris Bruni, Willow Springs, NC (US);
John W. Kern, III, Raleigh, NC (US);
Wandell & Goltermann Technologies, Inc., Research Triangle Park, NC (US);
Abstract
A rules-based expert analysis system for networks includes a combination of algorithmic and heuristic rules which are grouped in hierarchies in one or more related categories of network performance criteria. Each rule is interdependent in a prioritized manner with one or more other rules, and although the interdependencies are fixed the rule priorities are adaptable based on the user entered objective of the analysis. This allows the rules that are used in the analysis to be defined at run time, instead of fixed rules which are defined at design time and which use fixed threshold values