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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 07, 2010
Filed:
Feb. 19, 2008
Hossein Eslambolchi, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
Kerrie Linker, Middletown, NJ (US);
Alexander Novokshanov, Alpharetta, GA (US);
Harold J. Stewart, Alpharetta, GA (US);
Denis Yankin, Alpharetta, GA (US);
Hossein Eslambolchi, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
Kerrie Linker, Middletown, NJ (US);
Alexander Novokshanov, Alpharetta, GA (US);
Harold J. Stewart, Alpharetta, GA (US);
Denis Yankin, Alpharetta, GA (US);
AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P., Reno, NV (US);
Abstract
In accordance with the teachings of the present invention, a method and apparatus is presented for determining minutes of outage. Information associated with a facility hierarchy is acquired. In one embodiment, the facility hierarchy is a SONET facility hierarchy. Outage is determined for each level in the hierarchy and a correlation is performed on the outages associated with each level in the hierarchy.