Patent ID: 7701843
Filing Date: 2010-04-20
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. One or more computer-readable media having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon for performing a method of associating network failures in a communications network to a common network resource, the method comprising: populating a management data structure with relational data that describes a plurality of network components, wherein the plurality of network components includes the common network resource; receiving an instance of fault data that indicates a problem with a network component; associating fault data with the common network resource, thereby providing an association between the fault data and the common network resource; storing said association in a network-fault data structure; when multiple associations are present, grouping them into an event; determining event categories that include, categorizing a first event as a service-affecting event when the common network resource is an optical facility and a percentage of child network components of the optical facility that are reporting service-affecting alarms is below a predetermined threshold; categorizing a second event as a service-impacting event when the common network resource is an optical facility and the percentage of the optical facility's child network components that are reporting service-affecting alarms is above the predetermined threshold; categorizing a third event as a service-impacting event when the common network resource is a Digital Signal 3 (DS3) facility; and storing a result of the categorizing in a memory component.