Patent ID: 7751335

Claim:
A failure handling system for handling failure occurring on a network, comprising: client devices connected to the network, for exchanging communication frames with each other through the network; a first transmission device including a failure detector for detecting occurrence of a failure in the network, an outgoing frame shutoff controller operative in response to detection of the failure to perform shutoff control on the local device such that the local device stops outputting the communication frames to a receiving client device for which the communication frames are destined, and a failure notifier for sending, to a network manager, a failure notification notifying that the failure has been detected; a second transmission device including an incoming frame shutoff controller operative in response to reception of a shutoff command to perform shutoff control on an originating client device with which the receiving client device is associated and from which the communication frames are originated such that the originating client device stops outputting the communication frames; and a network management device as the network manager, the network management device including a communication route manager for managing communication routes through which the client devices communicate with each other across the network, and a shutoff information sender responsive to reception of the failure notification from the first transmission device, for looking up the communication routes to identify the second transmission device connected with the originating client device, and sending the shutoff command to the second transmission device.