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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:
Jun. 06, 2000
Filed:
Jun. 28, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Michael Bencheck, Garland, TX (US);
Robert Branton, Farmers Branch, TX (US);
Curtis Brownmiller, Richardson, TX (US);
Mark DeMoss, The Colony, TX (US);
Steve Landon, Richardson, TX (US);
Minh T Tran, Plano, TX (US);
Assignee:
MCI Communications Corporation, Washington, DC (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L / ; G05B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
370244 ; 370465 ; 34082506 ;
Abstract
A system and method for determining a root cause of error activity in a network is described herein. Root cause analysis includes the correlation between reported error activity for path, line and section entities along a provisioned channel in the network. Root causes can also be identified based upon the correlation of simultaneous error activity on various signal transport levels. Finally, root cause analysis can correlate error activity along various path entities.