Patent ID: 7423995
Filing Date: 2008-09-09
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. In a data communications network having a set of network links, a method of removing network links from service, comprising: providing a group of quality ratings, each quality rating in the group of quality ratings being associated with a network link in a subset of the set of network links; and removing an individual network link from service based on both a quality rating associated with the individual network link and a status associated with at least one other network link in the subset of network links; and wherein the status associated with each network link in the subset of network links comprises a quality rating associated with each network link in the subset of network links, the quality rating associated with each network link in the subset of network links is obtained by measuring the data transmission performance of each network link in the subset of network links, and the data transmission performance of each network link comprises a value representing a number of data transmissions successfully delivered by the network link in a specified period of time.