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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 27, 2014
Filed:
Jun. 25, 2010
Applicant:
Seiho Itano, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Seiho Itano, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
Allied Telesis Holdings K.K., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04J 3/17 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Provided is a method of controlling a network concentratorwhich controls a link status between, of a plurality of ports, at least one portthat belongs to a first groupand at least one portthat belongs to a second groupcorresponding to the first group. The method comprises the steps of: detecting that each of the ports that respectively belong to the first groupand the second groupis link-up or link-down; and as a result of the detection step, if at least one port in one group of the first groupand the second groupis link-up and all the ports in the other group are link-down, setting the link-up port in the one group to disablement.