Patent ID: 9313093
Filing Date: 2016-04-12
CPC Classification: H04L

Claim Text:
1. An Ethernet fault management method, comprising: receiving, from a remote Maintenance End Point, a first control packet with objects present therein; passing a copy of the first control packet to software; analyzing the first control packet in the software to determine the objects present therein and associated offsets; programming a hardware device using the software based on the determined objects present and the associated offsets such that the hardware device is configured to process subsequent control packets from the remote MEP rather than the subsequent control packets being processed in the software, wherein the hardware device is programmed to look for specific contents in the subsequent control packets at the associated offsets and to act upon any change in contents at the associated offsets; and receiving the subsequent control packets from the remote MEP and processing the subsequent control packets in the hardware device based on the programming.