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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 25, 2007
Filed:
Jul. 26, 2004
Hossein Eslambolchi, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
Kerrie L. Linker, Red Bank, NJ (US);
Alexander Novokshanov, Alpharetta, GA (US);
Harold Jeffrey Stewart, Alpharetta, GA (US);
Denis Sergeyevich Yankin, Alpharetta, GA (US);
Hossein Eslambolchi, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
Kerrie L. Linker, Red Bank, NJ (US);
Alexander Novokshanov, Alpharetta, GA (US);
Harold Jeffrey Stewart, Alpharetta, GA (US);
Denis Sergeyevich Yankin, Alpharetta, GA (US);
AT&T Corp., New York, NY (US);
Abstract
An accurate method of reporting 'minutes of outage' for a SONET facility applies a set of business rules and hierarchical definitions to delete certain minutes that would otherwise be counted as 'outages'. In particular, any outage minutes reported for a network element taken out of service for “planned maintenance” activities are removed prior to performing the final count. Additionally, outage minutes for a “lower level” element (such as, for example an OC1 element) that overlap in time with outage minutes reported for a “high level” element are likewise removed before the count is performed. The elimination of these non-service impacting outage minutes thus results in a more accurate reporting of the actual service impact of the counted outage minutes.