Patent ID: 8068432
Filing Date: 2011-11-29
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for reducing network infrastructure fault analysis times in a network comprising a plurality of pollable network infrastructure objects, comprising: determining a fault area within the network, the fault area comprising a portion of the network comprising network infrastructure objects that contain a fault and network infrastructure objects not containing faults that are directly connected to the network infrastructure objects that contain a fault; sending polls targeting each network infrastructure object within the fault area; receiving poll responses from the pollable network infrastructure objects within the fault area; assigning priorities to each received poll response of the received poll responses; and processing the assigned priorities of the received poll responses and the corresponding received poll responses to determine any network infrastructure fault locations within the fault area, wherein for the plurality of pollable network infrastructure objects a poll result of a pollable network infrastructure object with a higher priority is processed before a second poll result of a second pollable network infrastructure object with a lower priority.