Method and apparatus for performing service level analysis of communications network performance metrics
CA 2307766 C · Owner: Visual Networks, Inc. · Inventors: Nisbet, Thomas R.; Ennis, James D. Jr.; Troutman, Robert C.
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
Open the CIPO recordAbstract From the Canadian patent
A data transmission system includes probes (probe A probe B) connected , between end user sites (site A site B) and a data switching network (12). Each probe is connected to the switching network (12) via an access channel (20, 21, 26 or 27) wherein transmission circuits establish paths between the sites through the access channel (20, 21 26 or 27) and switching network , (12). The probes capture and retransmit data traveling between the sites over respective transmission circuits, and can thereby insert service level anaylsis (SLA) messages into data traffic in order to actively communicate network performance information to other probes. For each transmission circuit, the probes …
Read the whole patent
Listed from its CIPO record in Patent Yard's archive of Canadian patents past their term. Its claims, description and drawings are in the CIPO record and on Google Patents, and the Claude kit works from them.
Why it's free to use
- Filed November 6, 1998 and granted May 21, 2002. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended November 6, 2018.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by November 6, 2020.
- We check Canadian rights only. A patent in its family in another country could still be in force: check its family on Google Patents.
Timeline
Timeline From CIPO dates
Sources & verification
Official CIPO records
Everything on this page comes from the CIPO record linked above. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada.