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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 11, 2014
Filed:
Dec. 10, 2009
Applicants:
Bin Wang, Shenzhen, CN;
Shaoyong Wu, Shenzhen, CN;
Inventors:
Bin Wang, Shenzhen, CN;
Shaoyong Wu, Shenzhen, CN;
Assignee:
ZTE Corporation, Shenzhen, Guangdong, CN;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/28 (2006.01); H04L 12/24 (2006.01); H04L 12/437 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 41/12 (2013.01); H04L 12/437 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method for managing a topology of a multi-ring Ethernet and a system thereof are disclosed, and the method includes: a node including a blocked port on the multi-ring Ethernet periodically sending a Topology Find Frame (TF) message along a transmission control channel through an own good port; a node receiving said TF message in the multi-ring Ethernet updating an own topology database according the NODE_LIST in said TF message, writing an own NODE_ID into the NODE_LIST of said TF message, and then forwarding said TF message along the transmission control channel.