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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 18, 2012
Filed:
Apr. 30, 2009
Sheng Lin, Lisle, IL (US);
Suveer Kaul, Banagalore, IN;
Sheng Lin, Lisle, IL (US);
Suveer Kaul, Banagalore, IN;
Alcatel Lucent, Paris, FR;
Abstract
The present invention relates to a buffer system for managing a plurality of service measurement (SM) requests. In one embodiment, the buffer system includes a count buffer configured to store the SM requests. Each SM request includes a key set and a name-value pair. The name-value pair includes a name field and a value field. The buffer system further includes a send buffer configured to consolidate indices of the count buffer according to a destination address of each of the SM requests and a transport buffer configured to create at least one outgoing message based on data contents of the count buffer than correspond to the indices that have been consolidated.