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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 09, 2003
Filed:
Oct. 05, 1999
Douglas Moeller, Burlington, MA (US);
Matthew Liste, New York, NY (US);
Nortel Networks Limited, , CA;
Abstract
A method and apparatus for determining the history of at least one network device (the “given device”) in a set of channel-based network devices coupled to a network maintains a history memory to generate a history of the given device. To that end, the current status of the given device is recorded in the history memory at one or more selected times. The current status is retrieved at the selected times from a registration memory that has the current status of the given network device. A reply message with device data relating to the given device responsively is generated in response to receipt of an inquiry message requesting information about the given device. The device data represents at least one of the current status and the history of the given device.