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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.

Date of Patent:
Dec. 20, 2005

Filed:

Apr. 10, 2000
Applicants:

Joseph J. Weinstein, Somerville, MA (US);

John R. Zavgren, Acton, MA (US);

Brig Barnum Elliott, Arlington, MA (US);

Norman Rehn, Newbury, MA (US);

William S. Passman, Lexington, MA (US);

Inventors:

Joseph J. Weinstein, Somerville, MA (US);

John R. Zavgren, Acton, MA (US);

Brig Barnum Elliott, Arlington, MA (US);

Norman Rehn, Newbury, MA (US);

William S. Passman, Lexington, MA (US);

Assignee:

BBNT Solutions LLC, Cambridge, MA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L012/56 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

In a radio network having plural routers (), each router includes a routing table (). Link state information of the network that has been forwarded to the router is received and used to determine the connections in the network. The determined network connections are collected to generate network topology information which is placed in the routing table (). The network topology information is retrievable for inclusion in messages forwarded by the receiving router.


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