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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:
May. 23, 2006
Filed:
Oct. 09, 2001
Applicant:
Joseph E. Devlin, Westford, MA (US);
Inventor:
Joseph E. Devlin, Westford, MA (US);
Assignee:
Rocket Software, Inc., Newton, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/26 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
In accordance with one embodiment, a method and system are provided for determining the connectivity of switches in a computer network. The switches include multiple ports for connection to other switches and network elements. Connectivity of the switches is determined by determining all the possible port pairings, determining a score for each port pairing, and selecting the port paring having the highest score.