Patent ID: 7664980
Filing Date: 2010-02-16
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method for automatically attempting to recover equipment from a transient fault, comprising: detecting a fault associated with the equipment in a node in a communications network; determining whether the fault associated with the equipment is transient by determining that a pre-defined memory space address on the equipment has changed and determining that the fault is a transient power glitch fault based on the change to the memory space address on the equipment; if the fault is transient, automatically attempting to recover the equipment from the transient fault without user intervention; if the recovery attempt is successful, monitoring the equipment for a pre-determined period of time to determine if the fault recurs; and if the fault recurs, automatically re-attempting to recover the equipment from the fault until the fault does not recur in the pre-determined period of time or until a pre-determined number of attempts to recover the equipment have been performed.