Patent ID: 7460491

Claim:
A method for representing at least one low-order connection and at least one high-order connection as a single circuit at a network circuit manager in communication with a network comprising said low-order and high-order connections, the method comprising: creating at the network circuit manager, a low-order listener object and a low/high listener object at each end point of said at least one low-order connection; creating a high-order listener object at each end point of said at least one high-order connection; and matching the low/high listener object with the high-order listener object to create a low-order link, wherein said link represents said low-order and high-order connections as a single circuit within the network; wherein said at least one low-order connection comprises two low-order connections each comprising low-order listener objects and low/high listener objects at each end point, and said at least one high-order connection is in communication with the two low-order connections, and further comprising converting the high-order connection to the low-order link.