Patent ID: 9246746
Filing Date: 2016-01-26
CPC Classification: H04L

Claim Text:
1. A method of providing reliable network notifications at a first device, comprising: generating a notification at the first device for a second device; transmitting the notification to a second device utilizing Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) and an asynchronous InformRequest-Protocol Data Unit (PDU) from the first device to the second device using User Datagram Protocol (UDP); buffering subsequent notifications for the second device, wherein the subsequent notifications are generated prior to an acknowledgement of receipt of the notification from the second device thereby operating in an asynchronous mode for SNMP; subsequent to receiving the acknowledgement of receipt of the notification from the second device within a predetermined time period, transmitting a next notification of the buffered subsequent notifications to the second device; and subsequent to a failure to receive the acknowledgment within the predetermined time period, resending the notification as an asynchronous InformRequest PDU while continuing the buffering of the subsequent notifications, wherein the notification and the subsequent notifications are received, by the second device, in an order they were generated at the first device, and wherein each of the first device and the second device utilize Network Configuration Protocol (NETCONF).