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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 03, 1998
Filed:
Jun. 28, 1996
William D Croslin, Colorado Springs, CO (US);
Mark W Sees, Plano, TX (US);
MCI Communications Corporation, Washington, DC (US);
Abstract
The invention is a generalized process for dynamically restoring traffic in the event of an outage in a telecommunications network. A Centralized Processing System (CPS) receives alarms from communications ports of diverse network equipment (DNE) elements. The CPS then proceeds to analyze and correlate the alarms in an effort to isolate the location of the outage. In doing so, the CPS utilizes a Network Topology database that is preferrably updated in real-time with topology data obtained directly from the DNE network. The CPS will then identify and prioritize all traffic-bearing trunks impacted by the outage. The CPS then generates and implements a restoral route for each impacted trunk by issuing appropriate reroute command to the DNEs. If a DNE responds with an indication that a command failed and that its particular restoral segment is not possible, the CPS updates Network Topology database to indicate this segment as unavailable and proceeds to generate another restoral route. After implementing a restoral route, the CPS verifies that traffic is restored. When the cause of the outage has been fixed, the CPS restores the original route.