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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:
Nov. 22, 2016

Filed:

Jan. 21, 2009
Applicants:

Carl Steven Mower, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Matthew Alan Palmer, Menlo Park, CA (US);

Inventors:

Carl Steven Mower, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Matthew Alan Palmer, Menlo Park, CA (US);

Assignee:

Aerohive Networks, Inc., Milpitas, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/28 (2006.01); H04L 12/26 (2006.01); H04L 12/24 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 43/50 (2013.01); H04L 12/2697 (2013.01); H04L 12/2803 (2013.01); H04L 41/0273 (2013.01); H04L 41/0853 (2013.01); H04L 41/0856 (2013.01); H04L 41/0869 (2013.01); H04L 41/22 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method of configuring a virtual network comprises: running a user-interactive business requirements wizard from a server, the wizard collecting business requirements from a user; translating the business requirements into technical requirements for a network configuration using the server; selecting a network configuration from a network configuration database using the server, the selecting utilizing the technical requirements; testing the network configuration using a processor; monitoring the testing and generating new facts regarding performance of the network configuration, using the processor; feeding back the new facts to the server for use by the server in the selecting; and repeating the selecting, testing, monitoring and generating, and feeding back, until the server determines a criterion for network stability has been reached. The method may include automatically discovering local network characteristics using a networking device, prior to the selecting, sending the characteristics to the server for use by the server in the selecting.


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