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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 11, 2011
Filed:
Jan. 08, 2008
Applicants:
Wing F. Lo, Plano, TX (US);
Richard C. Mcnamara, Thornton, CO (US);
Bahareh Momken, Boulder, CO (US);
Bruce Robinson, Erie, CO (US);
Inventors:
Wing F. Lo, Plano, TX (US);
Richard C. McNamara, Thornton, CO (US);
Bahareh Momken, Boulder, CO (US);
Bruce Robinson, Erie, CO (US);
Assignee:
Avaya Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The present invention provides methods, devices, and systems for determining the availability of at least a part of a communications network in the context of alternate routing. Moreover, the present invention is adapted to consider network flow variations based on device outages all while accounting for the actual probability associated with various re-routing scenarios.