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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 19, 2011
Filed:
Dec. 21, 2009
Indermohan Monga, Acton, MA (US);
Bruce Schofield, Tyngsboro, MA (US);
Franco Travostino, Arlington, MA (US);
Indermohan Monga, Acton, MA (US);
Bruce Schofield, Tyngsboro, MA (US);
Franco Travostino, Arlington, MA (US);
Nortel Networks Limited, St. Laurent, Quebec, CA;
Abstract
Application program network service requests are translated into specific actions that are then performed through the management plane and/or control plane. The translations and resulting actions are responsive to previously defined policies for the communication network, and may further reflect processing of previous service requests by the same or another application program. The amount of resources available for use by a given application program may be predefined based on a globally defined network policy. Each service request obtained from an application program may be translated into multiple actions performed using various specific protocols and/or interfaces provided by either the management plane, the control plane, or both the management and control planes. Reports of network activity, status and/or faults for a requesting application program may be tailored to the requesting program's view of the network, and passed directly and exclusively to the requesting program.