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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7773727 | Method for providing predictive maintenance relating to trunk operations in a VoIP network An arrangement analyzes a plurality of call detail records and determines that a particular call processing code has occurred a predetermined number of times during a previously defined time interval. The fact of these multiple occurrences of these processing codes ... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7505567 | Method for providing detection of fault location for defect calls in a VoIP network An arrangement analyzes a plurality of call detail records from multiple sources and find those records related to multiple attempts to set up a particular user's call(s). The call detail records are filtered to establish an understanding of fault location likely to... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7433323 | Remote testing of high speed data and voice communication networks Faults or degradation of performance of a voice/data communication network (2) are identified without the need to dispatch service personnel by selectively testing isolated sections of the communication network. For some of these tests, the communication netw... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7428300 | Diagnosing fault patterns in telecommunication networks The disclosed methods and systems prioritize network devices and components that more likely result in a network outage by evaluating their current and historical outage information relative to a dynamically-generated, statistical threshold based on such outage info... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7418083 | Telecommunications line parameter estimation A fault location system for a telecommunications network including a local exchange or switch, a node such as a primary connection point and a plurality of line terminations to the customer includes probability calculation to establish the location of a fault measur... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7366284 | Outage reporting for a telecommunications system An outage reporting method and system are disclosed for a telecommunications system. The outage reporting system includes a processor to record a data element value. The data element value indicates a type of outage that occurred in the telecommunications system, su... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7362712 | SONET network outage impact measurement In accordance with the teachings of the present invention, a method and apparatus is presented for determining minutes of outage. Information associated with a facility hierarchy is acquired. In one embodiment, the facility hierarchy is a SONET facility hierarchy. O... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7319747 | Method and system for combining an emergency standalone switching device with a switching system interface The present invention is a system and method of combining an emergency standalone switching device with a switching system interface used to bypass the common control and switch matrix of a class 5 digital switch. The emergency standalone switching device pro... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7318178 | Method and system for reducing false alarms in network fault management systems Methods and systems are described for reducing the number of false alarms in fault correlation software used to detect and diagnose faults in computer networks and similar systems. The fault correlation software includes rules that monitor a number of indicators tha... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7313324 | SONET outage impact measurement technique An accurate method of reporting “minutes of outage” for a SONET facility applies a set of business rules and hierarchical definitions to delete certain minutes that would otherwise be counted as “outages”. In particular, any outage minutes reported for a net... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7257205 | Method and apparatus for communicating with one of plural devices associated with a single telephone number during a disaster and disaster recovery A system for (and a method of) selectively establishing communication with one of plural devices associated with a single telephone number during a disaster or disaster recovery period. In a preferred embodiment, the system includes two wireless connection units, ea... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7185115 | Modular system for connecting multiple customer premises voice and data communications devices to a T1 data line An integrated system concurrently connects voice and data communications devices used by small and medium sized businesses to a network T1 data line terminating at the customer premises. A system chassis includes multiple slots and backplane connectors for removably... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7177267 | Hardware monitoring and configuration management A transmission system is provided. The system includes a hardware monitor adapted to collect performance information about associated hardware components, a system information database adapted to refresh based on the collected performance information and to generate... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7146305 | Analytical virtual machine An analytical virtual machine (AVM) analyzes computer code using a software processor including a register that stores behavior flags indicative of behaviors identified by virtually executing the code within the virtual machine. The AVM includes a sequencer that sto... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7130261 | Hierarchical dependability for open distributed environments Systems and methods that are operable in open distributed environments, such as ToL and other similar systems are described. One dependability system includes a hierarchical arrangement of two or more nodes each having a fault analyzer object programmed to respond t... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7116759 | Method, system and computer program product for facilitating the analysis of automatic line insulation testing data A method for analyzing automatic line insulation testing data comprising receiving an electronic version of ALIT test results and parsing the ALIT test results to extract error data. The error data is inserted into an ALIT database. The ALIT database includes one re... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7085237 | Method and apparatus for routing alarms in a signaling server An alarm collection and routing method using a multi-stage clock distribution scheme in a signaling server organized into a plurality of uniquely addressable shelves. The signaling server includes a system timing generator, one or more clock distribution modules arr... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7072900 | System and method for developing topography based management systems A system and method for developing topography based management systems is presented. A software system is designed using a layered approach that provides a topography that is suitable to a particular management philosophy or particular customer requirements. The top... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7032016 | Proactive service request management and measurement A method for managing a repair process for a fault between a proactive network repair system and customer service system using a repair ticketing system is provided. The method includes detecting the fault in the proactive network repair system. Once detected, an in... | 04/18/2006 |
| 6996514 | Time simulation techniques to determine network availability A time simulation technique for determining the service availability (or unavailability) of end-to-end network connections (or paths) between source and sink nodes is disclosed. The failure could be either a single failure mode or a multiple failure mode. The time s... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6980637 | Service and information management system for a telecommunications network A system for service control and operations for a telecommunications network. In particular, an architecture and method for a service control and operations element system. The system communicates with a plurality of interconnected telecommunications network element... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6978302 | Network management apparatus and method for identifying causal events on a network A network management apparatus and method for identifying an event which is indicative of the underlying cause of more than one of a plurality of events detected by a network management station on a network is described in which the management station has knowledge ... | 12/20/2005 |
| 6975706 | Capacitance measurement-based mechanism for locating open telecommunication line fault To locate an open fault along a telecommunication wireline pair, a prescribed frequency tone is coupled to the wireline pair by way of a center tap of the transformer through which a line card is coupled to a subscriber loop. The line card's analog front end conduct... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6966015 | Method and system for reducing false alarms in network fault management systems Methods and systems are described for reducing the number of false alarms in fault correlation software used to detect and diagnose faults in computer networks and similar systems. The fault correlation software includes rules that monitor a number of indicators tha... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6950497 | Fault location in a telecommunications network A fault is located along a telecommunications line between the network terminating equipment and the local exchange by measuring a change in the capacitance of the line when compared with the capacitance under normal operating conditions. A geographical information ... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6928147 | Outage reporting for a telecommunications system An outage reporting method and system are disclosed for a telecommunications system. The outage reporting system includes a processor to record a data element value. The data element value indicates a type of outage that occurred in the telecommunications system, su... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6891930 | Method and system of providing cataloging and detecting network faults A system (10) for cataloging and detecting network faults, includes a communication interface (12) for receiving a fault message from a network. A parser (14) is connected to the communication interface (12). The parser (14) parses... | 05/10/2005 |
| 6876726 | Determining the composition of physical structures from boundary measurements, including the composition of subscriber loops A method for the direct estimation of configuration parameters defining the make-up of a physical system, such as cable lengths and gauges in the case of telephone subscriber loops, from boundary or end-point measurements of the physical structure, such as the imped... | 04/05/2005 |
| 6834099 | End-user communications test system The invention is a method and system for remotely testing network paths diagnosing problems in establishing a communications link between a call-routing component and a target component in a telecommunications network environment. The test system permits a call to b... | 12/21/2004 |
| 6832086 | Manager-directed method for event pressure reduction The present invention provides a method and apparatus for utilizing existing systems and components in a cellular network for managing network functionality to reduce event pressure between managers and agents. In accordance with the preferred embodiments of the inv... | 12/14/2004 |
| 6826155 | Apparatus and method for facilitating standardized testing of signal lines The present invention provides for an apparatus and a method for testing and evaluating a transmission line. A set of command and data signals is received through an input/output interface. The command and data signals from the input/output interface are processed f... | 11/30/2004 |
| 6763087 | Mobile VDSL signal detector The present invention relates to a detector comprising a microprocessor so that when a test item is inputted through an input device, the microprocessor is activated to read the test item and writes an identification (ID) of a user device or telecommunication device... | 07/13/2004 |
| 6675325 | Method and apparatus for fault analysis in a communication network A communication network includes a customer database storing information including a customer identifier and an associated plurality of telephone numbers. The customer database preferably is in communication with both a circuit switch component and a pack... | 01/06/2004 |
| 6611579 | Method for predicting and diagnosing trouble in a connection having a plurality of components A computer-executable method for diagnosing trouble causes in telephone cable segments when trouble data are available only for entire cables is presented. This method diagnoses problems in the components of processes when the component location of proces... | 08/26/2003 |
| 6590962 | Method of performing non-interactive resistive fault location A method and apparatus to non-interactively test telephone networks and more specifically to localize faults such as resistive faults in the subscriber loop of the telephone network is presented. The method and apparatus determine whether the fault is in ... | 07/08/2003 |
| 6567501 | Method and a system for transmitting alarms A method for transferring alarms, in which method a pre-determined area (1) is monitored by a monitoring device (24) connected to a subscriber line (10, 12, 14); the condition of the subscriber line (10, 12, 14) is monitored by line testing; when the ISDN... | 05/20/2003 |
| 6556659 | Service level management in a hybrid network architecture A Service Level Management system is provided. A notification of a service level problem within a combination packet-switching and circuit-switching hybrid network is received by the system. The service level agreement is retrieved and the problem is chec... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6510203 | Central office technician notification and information system A method and system for use in a central office (CO) having network elements for communicating information between a central office technician (COT) stationed within the CO and network element monitoring personnel or monitoring center stationed remote fro... | 01/21/2003 |
| 6445774 | System for automated workflow in a network management and operations system Methods and systems for automating the dissemination and processing of alarm reports received from a telecommunications network are provided. Alarm reports, which are provided to network monitors by a network management system, correspond to alarms that a... | 09/03/2002 |
| 6356625 | Environment monitoring telephone network system An environment monitoring telephone network system comprises: a plurality M of environment parameters detecting and transmitting units (16), which transmit data toward the remote acquisition exchange (7), said units being provided with N analog input sensors; ... | 03/12/2002 |
