Patent ID: 6230210
Filing Date: 2001-05-08
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
A method of resynchronizing a network manager to a network agent in a data communication network in which managers maintain a putative copy of data describing said agent, said method comprising the steps of:(1) storing at said agent, for each individual unit of data describing said agent, a first value corresponding to each unit of data, said first value being unique for every said unit of data;(2) storing at said agent, for each of said units of data, a second value that indicates the number of times that the corresponding unit of data has been changed;(3) storing at said manager a putative copy of said first and second values;(4) comparing said first and second values stored at said agent with said corresponding first and second values, respectively, stored at said manager; and(5) for every unit of data for which said first and second values stored at the manager do not match the first and second values, respectively, stored at the agent, revising the unit of data stored at the manager.