US Patent No: 7,200,118
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Identifying faulty network components during a network exploration
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Apr 3, 2007
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Jul 17, 2001
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09/907,422
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Abstract
A network exploration is performed to initialize one or more network elements of the network. If during the network exploration a failure is encountered, a systematic and deterministic approach is used to accurately and particularly identify the faulty network component that caused the failure.
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