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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:
Nov. 25, 2008
Filed:
Dec. 31, 2002
Applicants:
Eiji Oki, Tokyo, JP;
Daisaku Shimazaki, Tokyo, JP;
Naoaki Yamanaka, Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/28 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The present invention relates to a node, a packet communication network, and a packet communication method and program. The node of the present invention is one which includes a section which advertises to other nodes link state information which indicates the state of links which are connected to this node, a section which establishes a packet forwarding path according to the link state information which is included in the advertisement by the advertisement section, and a traffic observation section which observes the traffic and outputs its observations as traffic observation results.