Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery – Data processing system error or fault handling – Reliability and availability
Patent
1997-06-30
1999-09-28
Beausoliel, Jr., Robert W.
Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery
Data processing system error or fault handling
Reliability and availability
370228, 340827, 379221, 709241, 709244, G06F 1100, H04B 338, H04M 700, G01R 3108
Patent
active
059580631
ABSTRACT:
A method and system for pre-patching spare capacity into a communications network. The pre-patching system analyzes an original network configuration along with restoration plans that define restoral routes to bypass a network failure. The pre-patching system identifies existing spare connections in the original network configuration that can advantageously be destroyed from the original configuration so that their destroying can be avoided when implementing the restoration plans. The pre-patching system also identifies connections that do not exist in the original configuration and that can advantageously be created in the original network configuration to avoid the overhead of their creation when implementing the restoration plans.
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Croslin William D.
Sellers Steven M.
Beausoliel, Jr. Robert W.
MCI Communications Corporation
Shaw Brian H.
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