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Patent Inventor Names
Susan K Matheson0
Trevor K Bylsma0
Jeff Wilker0
Date of Patent
March 18, 2008
0Patent Application Number
094186470
Date Filed
October 15, 1999
0Patent Primary Examiner
Patent abstract
A method and apparatus for communicating functional characteristics of nodes in a communications network to the network manager in the network is presented. This is accomplished by defining a bit field that indicates whether or not a particular functions or services are supported by a particular node. The bit field for each node within the communications network is communicated to the network manager which stores the bit fields for each node within a database. The database is then utilized to perform network management functions, as it informs the network manager whether a particular service/feature is available on the node to which the bit field corresponds.
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