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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 13, 2001
Filed:
Apr. 28, 1998
Applicant:
Inventor:
Peter S. Cornell, Conyers, GA (US);
Assignee:
AT&T Corp., New York, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 3/108 ; G06F 1/100 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 3/108 ; G06F 1/100 ;
Abstract
Restoration of a multiplexed circuit in a network (,) is effected in accordance with the probability of failure of that circuit determined in accordance with: (1) how many constituent circuits in the multiplexed circuit are provisioned for service; (2) how many constituent circuits in the multiplexed circuit have failed and (3) how many constituent circuits in the multiplexed circuit are in service and out of service. If the probability of failure differs from a prescribed reference value by a predetermined threshold, a processor (,) effects restoration by choosing an alternate path.