Patent ID: 8666518
Filing Date: 2014-03-04
Classification: G05B

Abstract:
1. A method for managing an optical communication device installed in a communications network, the device comprising an integrated circuit with a digital agent for controlling parameters of the optical communication device, with the method comprising: monitoring a value of a parameter of the optical communication device installed in the communications network, wherein the parameter is an environmental parameter or a parameter related to the function of the device as an optical communications component, through an internal monitoring component of the optical communication device, the optical communication device operating as an optical communications component in the relaying of communications traffic between users that are at a plurality of locations; presenting the value of the monitored parameter to a user through a digital agent interface to provide the user for an option for externally controllable adjustment of the device; generating test signals or test data, generating an output of the optical communication device based on said test signals or said test data to thereby create a test output of the optical communication device; and automatically controlling the integrated circuit with the digital agent in the optical communication device to adjust the parameter of the optical communication device while it is operating in the communications network based on the monitored value of the parameter presented to the digital agent or the test output.