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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 14, 2012
Filed:
May. 11, 2005
Swarup Acharya, New Providence, NJ (US);
Edward J. Lafontaine, Haverhill, MA (US);
Wee Teck NG, Berkeley Heights, NJ (US);
Pankaj Risbood, Roselle, NJ (US);
Swarup Acharya, New Providence, NJ (US);
Edward J. Lafontaine, Haverhill, MA (US);
Wee Teck Ng, Berkeley Heights, NJ (US);
Pankaj Risbood, Roselle, NJ (US);
Alcatel Lucent, Paris, FR;
Abstract
Techniques are disclosed for identifying one or more errors and/or one or more stranded resources in a connection-oriented or circuit-switched network. By way of example, a technique for identifying at least one of an error and a stranded resource in at least a portion of a connection-oriented or circuit-switched network comprises the following steps/operations. Field data is obtained directly from one or more elements of the network. At least a portion of the obtained field data is examined to determine an existence of at least one of an error and a stranded resource with respect to one or more element-level constructs. Data synthesized from at least a portion of the obtained field data is analyzed to determine an existence of at least one of an error and a stranded resource with respect to one or more network-level constructs.