Patent ID: 7483390
Filing Date: 2009-01-27
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method of automatically transitioning a node comprising: receiving a human-readable description of a transition for the node, the human-readable description having a standardized syntax and including a subnet group section and a device section; selecting one or more network components from a list of network components based on resources of the selected components and the description of the transition of the node, wherein selecting one or more network components includes configuring at least one of the selected network components based on a resource of the selected component and the description of the transition of the node, wherein the at least one of the selected network components has an associated network resource wrapper to provide a machine accessible and standardized description of the functionality of the at least one of the selected network components, wherein configuring the at least one of the selected network components includes programmatically altering the associated network resource wrapper.