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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 29, 2008
Filed:
Jul. 12, 2002
Bharat T. Doshi, Holmdel, NJ (US);
Ramesh Nagarajan, Somerset, NJ (US);
Bharat T. Doshi, Holmdel, NJ (US);
Ramesh Nagarajan, Somerset, NJ (US);
Lucent Technologies Inc., Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Abstract
Multiple requests to set up and/or tear down connections in a node of a communication network (or multiple failure notifications) are bundled together for transmission within the network. In an 'inter-nodal' embodiment, multiple connection requests/failure notifications are bundled together as a single message for transmission between pairs of nodes in the network. In an 'intra-nodal' embodiment, multiple connection requests/failure notifications received at one component of a node in the network are bundled together as a single group for forwarding to another component within the same node for implementation. In either case, the bundling of multiple connection requests/failure notifications can reduce the total amount of time required to communicate and implement the desired connection requests/restoration processing. This reduction in time can be critical to the ability of a network to satisfy requirements associated with restoration processing following a network fault.