Patent ID: 7460468

Claim:
A method for automatically tracking the rerouting of logical circuit data in a data network, the method comprising: generating current reroute statistics upon the rerouting of logical circuit data from one or more failed logical circuits to one or more logical failover circuits in the data network, the current reroute statistics including trap data received for the one or more failed logical circuits in the data network, wherein the trap data includes a committed information rate or a committed burst size; generating a table for presenting the current reroute statistics without manual intervention; generating updated rerouted statistics, the updated reroute statistics including updated trap data received for the one or more failed logical circuits in the data network, wherein generating updated rerouted statistics comprises detecting a change in the status of the logical circuit by determining if a frame has been dropped, where the frame is dropped when the committed information rate or the committed burst size has been exceeded; and updating the table with the updated reroute statistics without manual intervention, wherein the current reroute statistics comprise trap data generated in real-time and communicated to a logical element module and not stored in switches that generated the trap data, and wherein each of the one or more failed logical circuits and each of the one or more logical failover circuits in the data network is identified by a logical circuit identifier that is renamed until the one or more failed logical circuits has been restored.