Patent ID: 7200648
Filing Date: 2007-04-03
Classification: H04L,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A dynamic searching method of provisioning instance identifiers (PRIDs), which is applied to a policy-based network management system, the network management system including a network policy database storing a plurality of data tables, each data table defining N PRIDs to store specific instructions, the N PRIDs respectively defining 1 to N field values sequentially, such that when determining a network policy, the network management system searches the network policy database to find a plurality of data tables used by the network policy, and then sequentially searches each used data table to find an available PRID for assignment according to the following steps: (A) finding a last data table without PRID assignment used by a network policy in data tables; (B) summing up used PRIDs in the last data table as a count M; (C) If M<N, selecting a used PRID with the greatest field value X, wherein N is the greatest integer limit for every data table and M is an integer; and (D) if X<N, assigning an (X+1) wherein if X=N, the following steps are performed: