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Alarm filter in an expert system for communications network
Assignee: NEXTIRAONE LLC
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Filing: 1993-10-28
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Granted: 1995-02-07
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Expires: 2013-10-28
Abstract
Abstract An Expert System 10 for providing diagnostics to a data communications network 5. Alarms from a Network Manager 24 are received and queued by an Event Manager 117 and then filtered by an Alarm Filter 118 to remove redundant alarms. Alarms which are ready for processing are then posted to a queue referred to as a Bulletin Board 120. A Controller 112 determines which one of the posted goals has the highest priority by considering a priority number associated with the goal plus a time of arrival of the goal. An Inference Engine 122 uses information from an Expert Information Structure 111 to solve the highest priority goal by a process called instantiation.
Inventors
- 👤 Ching Y. Kung
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
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Data Source
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Last Synchronized
2026-10-28 16:52
CPC Classifications
H; H04; H04L; H04L43/00; G; G06; G06F; G06F11/00; G06F11/22; G06F11/2257; H04L41/00; H04L41/06; H04L41/0631; H04L41/0654; H04L41/0659; H04L41/16; H04L43/50; G06F11/30; G06F11/32; G06F11/324; G06F11/327; H04L43/08; H04L43/0823; H04L43/0829; H04L43/10; H04L43/106; Y; Y10; Y10S; Y10S706/00; Y10S706/902; Y10S706/903; Y10S706/908; Y10S706/909; Y10S706/911; Y10S706/917
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 3
Claim 1
Independent Claim
191 words
In an expert system for providing diagnostic services for a communication network including a plurality of network devices capable of generating alarms in response to network problems, a method of processing said alarms reported from said network devices, comprising the steps of: receiving a current said alarm from one of said network devices; comparing said current alarm with other said alarms previously received from other said network devices to determine whether said current alarm corresponds to one of said previously received alarms in that both said current alarm and said previously received alarms serve to report a common said network problem in said network; said comparing step further including retrieving information from a database regarding a portion of said network's topology and determining from said portion if any of said network devices providing said previously received alarms and said one network device producing said current alarm could produce said previously received alarms and said current alarm, respectively, in response to said common network problem; and discarding said current alarm if said current alarm and any of said previously received alarms are determined to be in produced by said common common problem.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
191 words
In an expert system for providing diagnostic services for a communication network including a plurality of network devices capable of generating alarms in response to network problems, a method of processing said alarms reported from said network devices, comprising the steps of: receiving a current said alarm from one of said network devices; comparing said current alarm with other said alarms previously received from other said network devices to determine whether said current alarm corresponds to one of said previously received alarms in that both said current alarm and said previously received alarms serve to report a common said network problem in said network; said comparing step further including retrieving information from a database regarding a portion of said network's topology and determining from said portion if any of said network devices providing said previously received alarms and said one network device producing said current alarm could produce said previously received alarms and said current alarm, respectively, in response to said common network problem; and discarding said current alarm if said current alarm and any of said previously received alarms are determined to be in produced by said common common problem.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
27 words
The method of claim 1, wherein said comparing step compares a time of occurrence of said current alarm with times of occurrence of said previously received alarms.
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