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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 11, 2003
Filed:
Jul. 27, 1999
Kenya Kinouchi, Kawasaki, JP;
Takeshi Ono, Kawasaki, JP;
Fujitsu Limited, Kawasaki, JP;
Abstract
A transmission apparatus comprises a power-supply unit, a first detection unit for detecting a power-supply recovery of the power-supply unit, a request unit which is used for transmitting a demanding command to an adjacent transmission apparatus completing line setting based on line-setting information to request the adjacent apparatus to transmit alarm information when the first detection unit detects a power-supply recovery, wherein the alarm information includes disabled-reception and recovered-reception times, that is, times at which reception of a signal from the transmission apparatus is disabled and recovered respectively, a first reception unit for receiving the alarm information from the adjacent transmission apparatus and a second detection unit for detecting a period of time with a transmission line affected between a disabled-reception time and a recovered-reception time of the adjacent transmission apparatus included in the alarm information received by the first reception unit.