Patent 7423995 was granted and assigned to Bbn Technologies on September, 2008 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
The present invention, which may be embodied in or carried out by various components of a data communications network, provides an improved criterion for tearing down network links. The invention allows network components to take into account the quality, status and performance of other network links, as well as the overall performance of the network, when deciding whether to remove a failing network from service.