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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 29, 2013
Filed:
Jan. 29, 2004
Tomonori Takeda, Tokyo, JP;
Ichiro Inoue, Tokyo, JP;
Hisashi Kojima, Tokyo, JP;
Kaori Shimizu, Tokyo, JP;
Nobuaki Matsuura, Sayama, JP;
Tomonori Takeda, Tokyo, JP;
Ichiro Inoue, Tokyo, JP;
Hisashi Kojima, Tokyo, JP;
Kaori Shimizu, Tokyo, JP;
Nobuaki Matsuura, Sayama, JP;
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A plurality of pieces of information about a link (hereinafter referred to as 'link information'), which are stored in a common DB, are categorized in accordance with the VPN related to each piece of link information. VPNID, which is information for identifying each VPN, is added to each piece of link information which has been categorized. The link information for the same VPNID is extracted from the link information to which the VPNID for the common DB is added so as to be contained in the corresponding VPNDB. By doing this, it is possible to realize a path design for the customer easily by providing the network information in the VPN provider and the network information of the customer network while realizing a high scalability.