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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Dec. 21, 2021

Filed:

Oct. 31, 2018
Applicant:

Nxp B.v., Eindhoven, NL;

Inventor:

Sujan Pandey, Waalre, NL;

Assignee:

NXP B.V., Eindhoven, NL;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/14 (2006.01); H04L 12/24 (2006.01); G01R 31/08 (2020.01); G01R 31/30 (2006.01); H04L 12/40 (2006.01); G01R 31/50 (2020.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 41/0672 (2013.01); G01R 31/08 (2013.01); G01R 31/3004 (2013.01); G01R 31/50 (2020.01); H04L 12/40 (2013.01); H04L 41/0816 (2013.01); H04L 2012/40215 (2013.01); H04L 2012/40273 (2013.01);
Abstract

Embodiments of a method and a device are disclosed. In an embodiment, a method for operating a communications network is disclosed. The method involves setting, at a first network node in the communications network, a register value that is indicative of a fault status associated with the first network node, the register value being set in a physical layer device of the first network node, receiving fault status information at an element in the communications network, the fault status information corresponding to the register value that is set in the physical layer device of the first network node, and determining, at the element in the communications network, a fault status of the communications network in response to the fault status information received at the element in the communications network.


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