System and method for managing a flow of network status messages at a network operations console

• US 20060168200A1
• Filed: 11/03/2005
• Published: 07/27/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 06/22/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Net2Phone, Inc. (IDT Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Net2Phone, Inc. (IDT Corporation)
• Inventors: Goldberg, Harold Jeffrey, Berry, John L.
• Granted Patent: US 7,809,815 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/224
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/044 comprising hierarchical management structures
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0896 Bandwidth or capacity management, i.e. automatically increasing or decreasing capacities flow or congestion control using dynamic resource allocation, e.g. in-call renegotiation, H04L47/76
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/06 Generation of reports
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/062 related to network traffic
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/0817 by checking functioning
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/10 Flow control; Congestion control
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/30 in combination with information about buffer occupancy at either end or at transit nodes

Abstract

A computer based system, computer program product, and method for managing network status message data flow. A computer based system, computer program product, and method are provided for managing the flow rate of network status messages to a remote network operations console. Detailed network status is abstracted into hierarchical levels of detail so that an appropriate level of detail can be provided from a flow control daemon to the requesting network operations console without exceeding a predetermined allocation of bandwidth set aside for network status reporting.

Claims

1. A computer implemented system for managing a flow of network status messages to a network operations console, comprising:

a processor; and

a computer readable medium encoded with processor readable instructions that when executed by the processor implement,

a network status gathering mechanism configured to gather and ascertain network status information from a plurality of switches,

a network status reporting mechanism configured to report said network status to said network operations console, and

a network status reporting level determination mechanism configured to determine, on a switch by switch basis, a level of detail to report said network status to said network operations console based on a user request and a predetermined allocation of bandwidth for use in reporting network status.

3. A method of managing a flow of network status messages to a network operations console, comprising the steps of:

gathering network status information from a plurality of switches;

determining a reporting level, on a switch by switch basis, at which to report network status based on a user request and a predetermined allocation of bandwidth for use in providing network status; and

providing network status to said network operations console at said reporting level from said determining step.

4. A system for managing a flow of network status messages to a network operations console, comprising:

means for gathering network status information from a plurality of switches;

means for determining a reporting level, on a switch by switch basis, at which to report network status based on a user request and a predetermined allocation of bandwidth for use in providing network status; and

means for providing network status to-said network operations console at said reporting level from said determining step.

5. A computer program product, comprising:

a computer storage medium and a computer program code mechanism embedded in the computer storage medium for causing a processor to facilitate the management of a flow of network status messages to a network operations console, the computer program code mechanism comprising;

a first computer code device configured to gather a network status information from a plurality of switches;

a second computer code device configured to determine a reporting level, on a switch by switch basis, at which to report network status based on a user request and a predetermined allocation of bandwidth for use in providing network status; and

a third computer code device configured to provide network status to said network operations console at said reporting level determined by said second computer code device.