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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 13, 2009
Filed:
May. 03, 2005
Applicants:
Raghu Rajan, Dallas, TX (US);
Danny Dharamraj, McKinney, TX (US);
Inventors:
Raghu Rajan, Dallas, TX (US);
Danny Dharamraj, McKinney, TX (US);
Assignee:
Fujitsu Limited, Kawasaki, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 31/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A protection method and system for equipment in a network element receives a protection request for an equipment item. A priority of the request and a priority of the equipment item is evaluated relative to all other outstanding protection requests for equipment items in a protection group with the equipment item. A highest priority protection request for a highest priority equipment item is performed.