Patent ID: 6137774
Filing Date: 2000-10-24
Classification: H04L,H04Q

Abstract:
A system for dispatching commands to switching elements within a network in response to an outage comprising:a control computer; anda plurality of instructions resident on a memory device coupled to a real-time database to receive real-time network topology information for operating said control computer, said plurality of instructions including a code segment response to said real-time network topology information for receiving and organizing connect and disconnect commands for said switching elements, a code segment responsive to said receiving and organizing connect and disconnect commands for grouping said connect and disconnect commands for each of said switching elements, a code segment response to said grouping code segment for sending connect and disconnect commands to said switching elements, a code segment responsive to receive analyzing responses from said switching elements to determine whether communications are restored, a code segment for normalizing said network if said code segment for analyzing responses from said switching elements determines communications are not restored and a code segment for normalizing said network after the cause of said outage is corrected.