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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:
Jun. 30, 2009
Filed:
Oct. 28, 2005
Applicants:
William Beckett, Marlboro, NJ (US);
Brian Freeman, Farmingdale, NJ (US);
Joseph Niederberger, Atlantic Highlands, NJ (US);
Inventors:
William Beckett, Marlboro, NJ (US);
Brian Freeman, Farmingdale, NJ (US);
Joseph Niederberger, Atlantic Highlands, NJ (US);
Assignee:
AT&T Corp., New York, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/455 (2006.01); H04L 12/24 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A system and method for providing a virtual implementation of a large scale network of devices. The invention emulates an entire network of network devices using the configuration information obtained from the actual devices to meet the needs of testing configuration changes across the entire network.