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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.

Date of Patent:
Dec. 15, 2009

Filed:

Oct. 30, 2006
Applicants:

Chuck A. Black, Roseville, CA (US);

Daniel E. Ford, Roseville, CA (US);

Jeffrey A. Labarge, Roseville, CA (US);

Inventors:

Chuck A. Black, Roseville, CA (US);

Daniel E. Ford, Roseville, CA (US);

Jeffrey A. LaBarge, Roseville, CA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A method and system for monitoring a characteristic relating to real-time network health are described. The method includes detecting a functionality attribute of a service application accessed with a server of the network. Networking devices of the network are interrogated in relation to an operational status thereof. The real-time network health characteristic is inferred from the functionality attribute and/or the operational status detected.


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