Patent ID: 7881967

Claim:
A system, comprising: a host computer configured to receive a network component configuration and to determine if the network component configuration is valid or invalid based on a comparison of the network component configuration to a first grouping of network component configurations that are supported at a time that the network component configuration is received, wherein the network component configuration is valid if the network component configuration matches the first grouping of network component configurations or invalid if the network component configuration does not match the first grouping of network component configurations; the host computer configured to cause data representing the network component configuration to be stored for subsequent analysis if said comparison identifies said match, wherein the stored data is formatted for submission as an order for the network component configuration; the host computer configured to access the stored data at various times after said storing, wherein the various times occur in a time range after said storing and before receiving, at the host computer, any order activity marked by newly received transmissions for the network component configuration, and determine, at each various time, whether the network component configuration represented by the stored data is valid or invalid based on second different groupings of the network component configurations that are supported at the respective various times; and the host computer configured to output a notification if an invalid result is obtained at one of the various times to prevent submission of an invalid order.