Patent ID: 9509431
Filing Date: 2016-11-29
CPC Classification: G06F,H04B,H04J,H04Q

Claim Text:
1. A method, in an optical line terminal of an optical communication network, of instructing an optical network unit to restart, the method comprising: upon completion of downloading a new software version, determining a type of an active image request to be transmitted to the optical network unit based upon stored values of a RstDelayTimeRange attribute and of a RstDelayTrafficThreshold attribute corresponding to the optical network unit, wherein, the determining the type of the active image request to be transmitted includes determining whether to transmit one of, the RstDelayTimeRange attribute is used for indicating a time range or a time value in or at which a traffic detection is performed on the optical network unit, and the RstDelayTrafficThreshold attribute is used for indicating an upper traffic limit below or at which the optical network unit is determined to be in a silent state; and transmitting the determined first active image request, second active image request, or third active image request to the optical network unit.