Patent №
US 5,771,274
Granted
1998-06-23
Filed 1996
Owner
MCI COMMUNICATIONS CORPORATION
Lab
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AI components
2
kr · planning
Assignment
Recorded
Dataset
AIPD
2023_r1 edition
Application
08669259
A method and apparatus for detecting traffic-affecting failures in a telecommunications network; by inferring the most probable location of each such failure, given multiple alarm indicators along a network circuit; correlating circuit alarms to trunk failures, or inferring trunk failures from circuit alarms; inferring the location of major network outages by topologically correlating multiple trunk failures; and filtering alarm reporting to the Fault Management System users such that only the most significant derived or inferred conditions are automatically displayed.
AI classification
Ownership
MCI COMMUNICATIONS CORPORATION
assignment · 84630947
Assignors
HARRIS, ROGER
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