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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:
Mar. 21, 2006
Filed:
Jun. 28, 2001
Applicant:
John Harper, London, GB;
Inventor:
John Harper, London, GB;
Assignee:
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04J 1/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
According to a specific embodiment of the present invention, methods and apparatus are disclosed for generating network topology information. A first link state packet associated with a first node is identified. A second link state packet associated with a second node is identified. Network topology information associated with the first node is generated using information from the first link state packet. Verification of two-way connectivity between the first node and the second node is deferred until analysis of the second link state packet is initiated for generating network topology information associated with the second node.