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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:
Apr. 19, 2011
Filed:
Oct. 18, 2004
Applicants:
Devon Dawson, Rocklin, CA (US);
Mohamed Hamedi, Granite Bay, CA (US);
Inventors:
Devon Dawson, Rocklin, CA (US);
Mohamed Hamedi, Granite Bay, CA (US);
Assignee:
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04J 1/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
In an embodiment of the invention, a method for providing a router redundancy in a network, includes: monitoring a primary router for a failure event; and selecting a fail-over router to assume the role of the primary router if the failure event occurs in the primary router. The fail-over router is selected and configured by the use of a Router Redundancy Protocol (RRP) application software in a computer.