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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:
Jan. 25, 2011
Filed:
Jul. 02, 2004
Sunil Menon, Cupertino, CA (US);
Damian Horner, Belfast, GB;
Anil a Kuriakose, Kottayam, IN;
Swamy Mandavilli, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Robert Strahan, Herndon, VA (US);
Sunil Menon, Cupertino, CA (US);
Damian Horner, Belfast, GB;
Anil A Kuriakose, Kottayam, IN;
Swamy Mandavilli, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Robert Strahan, Herndon, VA (US);
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
In an embodiment, a network service provider (NSP) operates a provider network to provide VPN services to its customers. A VPN links various customer sites allowing customers to send data between these sites over the NSP network. Each site network includes a customer edge router (CE) while the provider network includes a plurality of provider edge routers (PEs) to communicate with the CEs. The PEs include virtual routing address (VRFs), and the PEs and CEs include interfaces (IFs). A database stores information related to the relationships between the network components (e.g., VPNs, PEs, CEs, VRFs, IFs, etc.), and a management software package (MSP) has access to the database. When a fault occurs, the MSP, based on collected information and information in the database, determines the impacted network components. Other features include classifying the seriousness of the network's faults and representing different faults by a color scheme.