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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 30, 1991
Filed:
Nov. 09, 1989
Applicant:
Inventors:
Robert W Downes, Raleigh, NC (US);
Wilson E Smith, Bahama, NC (US);
Ronald E Suciu, Raleigh, NC (US);
Kenneth T Wilson, Raleigh, NC (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corp., Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L / ; H04J / ; G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
371 51 ; 364200 ; 3642641 ; 371 291 ;
Abstract
A method for correcting error weights in a communication system in which at least one error condition can result from more than one cause. Stations on the system send error reports to an error monitor station which maintains a count of the number of stations reporting an error having multiple causes and periodically corrects the error weights assigned to each station as a function of the maximum number of errors reported by any station only when the number of stations reporting a multiple cause error exceeds a predetermined value.