Patent ID: 7889744
Filing Date: 2011-02-15
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for synchronizing monitoring points in an asynchronous transfer mode (“ATM”) network for a rerouted permanent virtual circuit (“PVC”), comprising: receiving a customer-defined starting and ending point for a PVC; assigning a first value of a location variable to a location of the starting point of the PVC; determining whether the first value of the location variable is equal to a location of the ending point; storing the first value of the location variable in a monitoring service object; determining a virtual path identifier/virtual channel identifier (“VPI/VCI”) corresponding to the PVC to identify a location of an ATM switch that is located along the PVC path after the starting point of the PVC; assigning a second value of the location variable to the determined location of the ATM switch; storing the second value of the location variable in the monitoring service object; determining whether the second value of the location variable is equal to the location of the ending point; storing a first set of data comprising a plurality of notifications for ATM switches that have been added to the PVC; determining whether each ATM switch of the first set of data is adjacent to a location of an ATM switch stored in the monitoring service object, the monitoring service object comprising a plurality of ATM switches along the PVC; storing a location of each ATM switch of the first set of data that is determined to be adjacent to a location of an ATM switch stored in the monitoring service object in the monitoring service object; storing a location of each ATM switch of the first set of data that is determined to not be adjacent to a location of an ATM switch stored in the monitoring service object in a second data set; and storing the second data set for subsequent processing.