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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:
Sep. 28, 1999
Filed:
Jun. 30, 1997
William D Croslin, Colorado Springs, CO (US);
Steven M Sellers, Colorado Springs, CO (US);
MCI Communications Corporation, Washington, DC (US);
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.