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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 15, 2011
Filed:
Jun. 30, 2006
Applicants:
Carl A. Bender, Highland, NY (US);
Nicholas P. Rash, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
Inventors:
Carl A. Bender, Highland, NY (US);
Nicholas P. Rash, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04J 1/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A network exploration is performed to initialize one or more network elements of the network. If during the network exploration a failure is encountered, a systematic and deterministic approach is used to accurately and particularly identify the faulty network component that caused the failure.