Patent ID: 6377675
Filing Date: 2002-04-23
Classification: H04Q

Abstract:
A method for assigning signaling link selection codes to a link connecting signaling nodes in a network, the method comprising the steps of:A) allocating nominal signaling link selection codes to a restored link in a link set; B) determining a minimum number of signaling link selection codes for each available link of the link set; C) determining a remaining number of signaling link selection codes that will be unassigned when each available link has the minimum number of signaling link selection codes; D) for each available link of the link set, determining whether the each available link has more than an acceptable number of signaling link selection codes assigned, where the each available link that has more than the acceptable number of signaling link selection codes is an over-a-maximum link; E) for each over-a-maximum link, allocating to a buffer a number of signaling link selection codes that reduces the number of signaling selections assigned to the each over-a-maximum link to equal the acceptable number of signaling link selection codes; F) for each available link of the link set, determining whether the each available link has less than an acceptable number of signaling link selection codes assigned, where the each available link that has less than the acceptable number of signaling link selection codes is an under a minimum link; and G) for each under a minimum link, allocating signaling link selection codes from the buffer to the each under a minimum link until the each under a minimum link has the acceptable number of signaling link selection codes, thereby producing a final allocation of signaling link selection codes.