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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 30, 2006
Filed:
Apr. 11, 2001
Applicants:
Wlodek Olesinski, Nepean, CA;
Rashid Qureshi, Ottawa, CA;
Mark Woodward, Carp, CA;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Alcatel Canada Inc., Kanata, CA;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04J 3/14 (2006.01); H04L 12/26 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method and apparatus of initiating a plurality of requests for statistics to be sent to an associated plurality of nodes in a segment of a communication network is provided. One or more requests are associated with an individual node. Each node has one or more node attributes. The method includes defining a sequence for initiating the requests to be sent to the nodes. The sequence is based on a value of a selected node attribute of each node. The method also includes initiating the requests according to the sequence.