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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.

Date of Patent:
Jul. 19, 2016

Filed:

Dec. 21, 2010
Applicants:

Mark D. Carney, Sterling, VA (US);

Harold Jason Schiller, Silver Spring, MD (US);

Dante J. Pacella, Charles Town, WV (US);

Inventors:

Mark D. Carney, Sterling, VA (US);

Harold Jason Schiller, Silver Spring, MD (US);

Dante J. Pacella, Charles Town, WV (US);

Assignee:

VERIZON PATENT AND LICENSING INC., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/713 (2013.01); H04L 12/24 (2006.01); H04L 12/703 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 45/586 (2013.01); H04L 41/0668 (2013.01); H04L 41/0896 (2013.01); H04L 41/5025 (2013.01); H04L 45/28 (2013.01);
Abstract

An approach provides micro-facilities for network recovery. An outage condition is detected, and is associated with one of a plurality of service provider facilities forming a service provider network. A router of the service provider network is determined to be capable of reaching the one service provider facility, wherein the provider router is resident within a customer facility. Bandwidth is allocated to one or more links for re-directing traffic over the provider router to the one service provider facility.


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