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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 15, 2009
Filed:
Sep. 22, 2004
Darek Skalecki, Kanata, CA;
Areef Reza, Ottawa, CA;
Ewart Tempest, Ottawa, CA;
Nortel Networks Limited, St. Laurent, Quebec, CA;
Abstract
Resources used by a connection are released when a connection is terminated, for example due to a failure on the network. When the connection is to be redialed, an indication of the released resources is collected and provided to the network element that will perform a redial operation to determine the new path for the connection. This allows the network element to determine the new path using up-to-date information, while not allowing other nodes on the network to know about the recently released resources, so that the head-end node has an initial opportunity to use the recently released resources for the redialed connection. Subsequently any unused resources will be advertised on the network for use by other nodes. The head-end network element may be notified of the resources released from termination of the previous connection by causing a termination message to propagate from the tail-end node to the head-end node and collect feedback along the terminating connection path.