Software methods of an optical networking apparatus with...

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2008-01-15

2008-01-15

Thomson, William (Department: 2194)

Electrical computers and digital processing systems: interprogra

Application program interface

C370S395500, C370S395510, C370S907000, C398S058000, C709S220000, C709S221000, C709S222000

Reexamination Certificate

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07320132

ABSTRACT:
An API is provided to an optical networking apparatus to facilitate uniform access, control or interaction with its multi-protocol optical networking modules (MPONM) by its applications. Each of the MPONM has a number of function blocks having corresponding service routines. In response to an application's request to initialize a MPONM, the initialization function of the API cooperates with the function block service routines to create a data structure for the MPONM, and returns a handle of the data structure to the application. Thereafter, in response to a need to have an operation performed in a function block of a MPONM, the application makes the request with an externalized function the API associated with the function block, including with the request the handle of the data structure of the MPONM.

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