Patent ID: 9264283
Filing Date: 2016-02-16
CPC Classification: H04J,H04L

Claim Text:
1. A method of accommodating signals in a frame generation apparatus that generates a first frame, the first frame comprising a payload region in which a client signal is to be accommodated, and an overhead region accommodating first location information indicating a location where the client signal is to be accommodated, the first frame being able to be processed as an m (m is an integer equal to or greater than 2) -byte cycle multiframe, the method comprising: defining the first location information as a multiframe including n (n is an integer equal to or greater than 2) sub-multiframes each having m-byte cycle; defining, using the first location information defined as the multiframe, the location where the client signal is to be accommodated in the payload region; and accommodating the client signal in the payload region, based on the defined location where the client signal is to be accommodated, wherein the first frame is accommodated in at least one of a plurality of slot regions of a second frame, the second frame including the plurality of slot regions and a second location information having a size of m bytes, each of the plurality of slot regions having a predetermined size, the second location information including type information indicating a type of each of the plurality of slot regions, and the type information indicates whether at least a part of the first frame is accommodated in each of the plurality of slot regions, wherein the first frame is an optical channel payload unit (OPU) frame and the second frame is an optical channel data unit (ODU) frame.