Patent ID: 7366988

Claim:
A method for making an apparatus for disambiguating telemetry, wherein said telemetry includes data sent by exception over a multi-path, multi-tier communications network having a plurality of telemetry source nodes producing telemetry data elements, a plurality of linked relay nodes, and one destination node, each said telemetry source node connected to at least one relay node, and further wherein each node originates uniquely identifiable counter data over said network, wherein counter data is a periodically changing data stream, the method comprising the steps of: obtaining a network diagram of said multi-path, multi-tier communications network; organizing data describing said network diagram, wherein said data describing said network diagram includes data relating to said counter data; and autocoding said data describing said network diagram to produce a telemetry disambiguating computer program, wherein the autocoding includes: producing a computer program executable to disambiguate telemetry sent by exception over the multi-path, multi-tier communications network responsive to the data describing said network diagram; producing a data structure retaining data relating to designed paths through said diagrammed network responsive to the data describing said network diagram; producing a computer program for updating said data structure with data relating to counter data from said diagrammed network said data relating to counter data associated with said designed paths, wherein said computer program to disambiguate telemetry is responsive to counter data from said diagrammed network to disambiguate telemetry data by searching said designed oaths for at least one possible path having data associated with said counter data and indicating if at least one possible path is an operable path, and wherein a machine readable media bears the autocoder.