Patent ID: 8825837

Claim:
A device comprising: a processor; memory; and a bus connected to the processor and memory, wherein the memory includes instructions carried out by the processor, the instructions, when carried out, upon receiving a notification from a first user portal that a network link to a network host is malfunctioning, causing the processor to periodically query the network link to the network host of the malfunctioning network link, before determining that the queried network link is identified as presently functional, causing the processor to send a notification of the malfunctioning network link to a second user portal and a third user portal, and when the queried network link is identified as presently functional by the processor, causing the processor to send a notification of restored malfunctioning link to the second user portal and the third user portal, wherein the second user portal and the third user portal have previously identified themselves as interested in tracking the network link identified in the notification from the first user portal, wherein a registry is updated upon receiving the notification from the first user portal.