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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 07, 2000
Filed:
Dec. 01, 1997
Applicant:
Inventor:
Sung-Won Kim, Suwon, KR;
Assignee:
SamSung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon, KR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R / ; H04L / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
370248 ; 370224 ; 370238 ; 370400 ;
Abstract
A technique for reducing the computational complexity for discriminating the existence of a communication path in a lattice communication network control system includes the steps of: checking for an existence of an alternate path between the two terminal nodes of a link, when a failure occurs in a link; and in the presence of the alternate path, setting the link to a failure state based on a consideration that there is a substitute path for the link, or in the absence of the alternate path, setting the link to an unconfirmable state out of the control of a management node, considering that a network is divided into two separate parts.