Inventors:
David S. Holland - Rutland MA, US
Matthew A. Chandler - Broomfield CO, US
Michael A. Tamny - Golden CO, US
Benny Rodrig - Lexington MA, US
Dave Sueper - Brighton CO, US
Fraser A. McKinnon - Thornton CO, US
Dicky A. Pillai - Littleton MA, US
Bhum C. Kim - Sydney, AU
Randall B. Kramer - Westminster CO, US
Luke A. Tucker - Beacon Hill, AU
Lee D. Gibbons - Boulder CO, US
Margaret L. Kelley-Johnson - Westminster CO, US
Assignee:
Avaya Inc. - Basking Ridge NJ
International Classification:
H04L 12/28
Abstract:
The present invention is directed, in various embodiments, to a hardware supported duplication token for arbitrating active and standby module states, a weighted state of health exchange for identifying unhealthy module states and relative module health states, and a packet sequence number synchronization technique for maintaining desired levels of synchronization between the active and standby modules.