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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 07, 2015
Filed:
Aug. 23, 2012
Applicants:
Roger G. Hathorn, Tucson, AZ (US);
Raymond Michael Higgs, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
George Peter Kuch, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
Louis William Ricci, Hyde Park, NY (US);
Inventors:
Roger G. Hathorn, Tucson, AZ (US);
Raymond Michael Higgs, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
George Peter Kuch, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
Louis William Ricci, Hyde Park, NY (US);
Assignee:
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01M 11/00 (2006.01); H04B 10/077 (2013.01); H04B 10/079 (2013.01); H04L 12/26 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 10/0775 (2013.01); G01M 11/30 (2013.01); H04B 10/0795 (2013.01); H04B 10/07955 (2013.01); H04L 43/0805 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method is provided for monitoring a state of an optical link in a Fiber Channel infrastructure and includes sending an Extended Link Service (ELS) request to read an optical power of the optical link, and diagnosing a degradation of the optical link, based on a response to the ELS request.