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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 24, 2009
Filed:
Aug. 06, 2003
Applicants:
Mark Coverdill, Dublin, OH (US);
Jonathan Gohstand, San Francisco, CA (US);
Inventors:
Mark Coverdill, Dublin, OH (US);
Jonathan Gohstand, San Francisco, CA (US);
Assignee:
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/173 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method for monitoring the availability of resources in a network comprises the computer-implemented steps of receiving an activity announcement packet from a node in the network; determining that the node is potentially inactive if no successive activity announcement packet is received from the node within a specified first time period; and determining that the node is inactive if no successive activity announcement packet is received from the node within a specified second time period.