Patent Document ID: 8737235
Application ID: 12635959
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A method, implemented by a network appliance having at least one processor, the method comprising: connecting the network appliance to an object network, the object network employing a link-state routing protocol and comprising a plurality of nodes interconnected by a plurality of links; acquiring, in real time, network-wide data based on the link-state routing protocol; and synthesizing an integrated network image based on the network-wide data, the integrated network image comprising: a real-time connectivity image including indicators of contemporaneous nodal interconnections; a real-time occupancy image including contemporaneous link-occupancy indicators of the plurality of links, the real-time occupancy image determined based on link-utilization data and link-capacity data, the network-wide data comprising the link-capacity data and the real-time occupancy image comprising an occupancy indicator of the plurality of links; and a real-time performance image including contemporaneous indicators of data loss and link-access delay at interfaces between the plurality of nodes and the plurality of links.