Patent ID: 8842576
Filing Date: 2014-09-23
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for cyclically identifying internal occupants, the method comprising: requesting, by a communications system, a link status over a network from a system switch processor (“SSP”); determining whether all of the internal occupants in a communications system apparatus have been discovered; determining whether the link status corresponds to any of the internal occupants, if all of the internal occupants in the communications system have not been discovered; determining whether the link status is up and a slot corresponding to the link status is not occupied, if the link status corresponds to any of the internal occupants that have not been discovered; launching a slot discovery, if the link status is up and the slot corresponding to the link status is not occupied, wherein launching the slot discovery comprises: determining whether the link status is down and the slot corresponding to the link status is occupied, if the link status is not up and the slot is not occupied; and identifying the internal occupants as non-operational, if the link status is down and the slot is occupied.