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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Feb. 09, 2010

Filed:

Aug. 13, 2003
Applicants:

Hongxing Zhang, Shenzhen, CN;

Yuxiang Wang, Shenzhen, CN;

Jianfei He, Shenzhen, CN;

Zuoxiao MA, Shenzhen, CN;

BO Liang, Shenzhen, CN;

Inventors:

Hongxing Zhang, Shenzhen, CN;

Yuxiang Wang, Shenzhen, CN;

Jianfei He, Shenzhen, CN;

Zuoxiao Ma, Shenzhen, CN;

Bo Liang, Shenzhen, CN;

Assignee:

Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Shenzhen Guangdong, CN;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 31/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

The invention discloses a method for implementing link state passing-through in network, for informing the peer of link fault, including: the service device detecting whether there is a link fault in the network; in case of link fault, the service device transferring link fault information to peer service device with a control frame; in response to the control frame containing link fault information, the peer service device disconnecting the user's link and performing corresponding processes; the user at the faulty peer communicating with peer user through the spare network; when the link recovers to normal, the service device at the recovery peer sending a control frame containing link fault recovery information to peer service device to reestablish communication between the users on the link. The invention is capable of reducing extra overhead under normal network conditions as much as possible.


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