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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 08, 2009
Filed:
Aug. 23, 2004
Masum Z. Hasan, Cupertino, CA (US);
L. Alexander Clemm, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Petre Dini, San Jose, CA (US);
Masum Z. Hasan, Cupertino, CA (US);
L. Alexander Clemm, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Petre Dini, San Jose, CA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A uniquely configured data structure is used to store event information for each network entity, where logical and physical dependency relationships among entities are captured in the data structure. For each entity, the data structure is configured to store (a) a 'genuine event set', which includes a list of events that originated in association with the entity; and (b) a 'derived event set', which includes a list of records in which each record is associated with an event that originated in association with an entity that has a dependency relationship (e.g., layering or topological) with the entity. The derived event set may simply comprise references to the genuine event sets for entities that have a dependency relationship with the entity.