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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 10, 2014
Filed:
Jun. 12, 2008
Applicant:
Jouni Maenpaa, Nummela, FI;
Inventor:
Jouni Maenpaa, Nummela, FI;
Assignee:
Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ), Stockholm, SE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/437 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method of managing a ring-based overlay network that is configured to allow routing of messages across an underlying IP network to destinations not specified by an IP address. The method comprises firstly sending a probe message from an initiating node of the overlay network around the ring, with each peer node forwarding the probe message to a successor or predecessor node. Upon detection of a forwarding failure at a node of the ring, a Probe error message is sent from that node to the initiating node. The initiating node represents the final destination for the Probe message.