343 results about "Network recovery" patented technology

Described is a technique for a backup and restoration of data in a network that includes a multi-lingual file system and a multi-lingual network file server. Multiple meta data files are associated with a single data file in the network. Provided are services for packaging the metadata as a single parameter of an application programming interface (API) for a particular data file being backed up or restored over a network. These techniques may be used in both full and incremental backups and restores of data over a network.

Embodiments relate to systems and methods for automatically generating a system restoration order for network recovery. A set of managed machines, such as personal computers or servers, can be managed by a network management platform communicating with the machines via a secure channel. The network management platform can access a dependency map indicating a required order for restoration of machines or nodes on a network. The network management platform likewise access a reverse kickstart file for each machine to be automatically restored in order to ensure proper functioning of the network, and extract a current configuration of that machine for purposes of restoring the overall network.

The present invention provides a method in which the physical connection information and the logical network configuration information are kinked to the status of spanning tree, and the status of spanning tree is displayed with the physical connection and the logical network configurations. The method can provide the better recognition about not only intended the physical and logical configurations but the status of spanning tree to a network administrator. Therefore, the network administrator can integrally recognize the status of the network and the failure in the network will be analyzed easily to recover the network to normal state in shorter time.

The present invention provides a master-slave architecture for a radio frequency RF networked lighting control system having all slave elements (ballasts) configured as backups for a network master control unit. In the system and method of the present invention a slave element can become the network master network unit without reconfiguring the network and without any human intervention. Similarly, both a master and one or more slave elements may recover from a temporary outage without necessitating reconfiguration of the network and without any human intervention.

A method for protecting the flows of traffic against, and for restoring them from, a failure in a multifunctional, hybrid broadband access-and-transport network system includes the provisioning of at least two Virtual Flows (“VFs”) of traffic between each pair of ingress and egress (“I / E”) nodes in the system. The at least two VFs are provisioned such that each takes a different physical path from the other. The VFs taking the same physical path are then respectively grouped into two “Path Protection Groups” (“PPGs”). Each of the PPGs has a dedicated “Management Control Flow” (“MCF”) provisioned within it that is carried in the at least one VF contained therein. The detection of a fault in the traffic in an “active” PPG results in the generation of a protection switching signal (“PSS”) being generated and sent by the nodes detecting the fault along the MCF of the affected PPG to the relevant “protection switching entities” (“PSEs”), i.e., the affected I / E nodes, which responsively effect a protection switch of either the reception, or both the transmission and the reception, of the affected traffic from the affected “active” PPG to the associated “protect” PPG to thereby restore path and traffic continuity within the system. The method is independent of the transport layer and can thus be used to protect traffic in networks having transport systems other than SONET.

An approach provides micro-facilities for network recovery. An outage condition is detected, and is associated with one of a plurality of service provider facilities forming a service provider network. A router of the service provider network is determined to be capable of reaching the one service provider facility, wherein the provider router is resident within a customer facility. Bandwidth is allocated to one or more links for re-directing traffic over the provider router to the one service provider facility.

Embodiments relate to systems and methods for generating a reverse installation file for network restoration. A set of managed machines, such as personal computers or servers, can be managed by a network management engine communicating with the machines via a secure channel. The network management engine can scan the managed network for kickstart, or provisioning answer files, that were used to install software to network nodes at a prior time. The network management engine can access the original kickstart file, and update that file to reflect a current state of the associated machine by inserting user-supplied updates, storage configuration updates, security credentials, and / or other data. Upon a crash or other malfunction of the associated machine, the network management platform can access the reverse kickstart file and generate a restoration of that node to a current state from the reverse kickstart data.

A system and method for securely roaming private data from a first client computer to a second client computer linked via a communication network. A user of the first client computer executes a home client application and designates private data for roaming. The home client application generates a first key in response to a password, and encrypts the designated private data as a function of the first key. The server receives and stores the encrypted private data. A user of the second computer executes a roaming client application and requests transfer of the encrypted private data from the server. The roaming client application generates the first key in response to the password, and decrypts encrypted private data transferred from the server to obtain the private data. The invention further provides users the ability to retrieve encrypted private from the server even when the user cannot remember the password associated with the first key. Also, the server has no knowledge of the private data nor the keys.

The invention relates to a method for restoring a wireless link by a terminal and a network after wireless link failure occurs in a distributed cellular wireless communication system, comprising the following steps: the terminal selects a cell after the wireless link failure occurs, and then sends wireless resource control connection reconstruction request to the cell; the cell responds a wireless resource control connection reconstruction message to the terminal, and the reconstruction message instructs the terminal to restore wireless configuration corresponding to a source cell or a targetcell stored by the terminal; and the source cell can be a service cell. After restoring the wireless configuration, the terminal returns a response message to the cell. According to the method, when the terminal returns to the source cell (service cell), target cell or a prepared cell after the wireless link failure occurs, the RRC reconstruction process can be simplified, thus shortening the time for restoring a control plane and a user plane, and improving the performance of the system.

Methods and systems for fast and reliable network recovery from multiple link failures. In accordance with one example of the method, a master node receives a request from a transit node having a blocked port to open the blocked port for data forwarding, wherein the blocked port is associated with a restored link. The master node starts a health-check timer and transmits a health-check message on its primary port to determine that all failed links of the network are restored. Upon determining that the health-check message is received at its secondary port, the master node transmits a message to each transit node indicating that all failed links are restored. Upon determining that the health-check message is not received at its secondary port before the health-check timer lapsed, the master node transmits a message to the transit node to open the blocked port associated with the restored link for data forwarding.

A method of restoring an active path between two nodes of a transport network upon occurrence of a failure includes the steps of determining an alternate path through the network and establishing a path protection involving the failed active path and the alternate path. If in layered networks, a failed path is restored at a lower layer and at a higher layer concurrently, the restoration actions in the higher network layer can thus be reverted easily.

Recovery time upon the failure of a link or switching system in an asynchronous data network can be minimized if downstream data switches provide upstream messages indicating to upstream switching system that the downstream traffic arrived in tact and was properly handled. Upon this loss or failure of the upstream status message to an upstream switching system, an upstream switching system can reroute data traffic around a failed link or failed switch with a minimal amount of lost data. The upstream status message is conveyed from a downstream switching system to an upstream switching system via a reverse notification tree data pathway.

The invention discloses a method for recovering networks in a ring network. Ethernet switch equipment enters a communication status after an initial configuration and precise time synchronization based on an IEEE 1588 protocol. Each equipment according to the configuration of the network sends out time-sharing equipment statement messages and link circuit checking messages. The link circuit checking messages are sent by a multicast address in two ways; if a port of equipment receives no link checking messages of a connected port after the time out, then a network trouble can be determined and link circuit alarm messages are sent by the multicast address in two ways for alarming. The rest equipments in the ring network after receiving the link circuit alarm message, then empty an FDB list and utilize a backup link circuit to restart path learning. By adopting the method of the invention, any communication link circuit failure in the ring network can be quickly detected and correspondingly processed, thereby meeting the availability requirements of Ethernet communication by the industrial automatic field.

A digital content mediator (“DCM”) communicates with a network resource controller / manager (NRM) to allocate the appropriate network resources for a digital content transfer. A DCM client provides a signal to the DCM requesting the desired digital content transaction. The DCM checks a content information database to see if the content transfer is allowed. If the transfer is allowed, the DCM then extracts content transfer information from the content information database that describes network resource characteristics for transfer of that content. The DCM then formulates a request to the Network Resorce Manager containing the source and destination endpoint information in addition to the network resource characteristics of the content to be transferred. The Network Resource Manager (NRM) then makes the appropriate resource allocations. If the request succeeds, the DCM “approves” the request and signals to the client that the transfer process can continue. At the end of the transfer process, after the DCM has verified that the destination user has received the desired digital content, the DCM provides a “signal” to the NRM requesting that the reserved network resources be de-allocated.

A method and system for fast and reliable network recovery from multiple link failures that detect the presence of an isolated node or segment in the network and determine whether one of the failed links, flanked by two blocked ports, is restored. Upon determining that at least one remaining link on the network remains in a failed state, a message is transmitted to all network links to indicate that one failed link is restored, and to unblock the ports flanking the restored link. The method and system of the present invention then flush the forwarding tables of all nodes, and network traffic resumes on the new network topology.

Methods implemented in an electronic device are disclosed for checkpoint and rollback recovery in a SDN system. The method utilizes message identifiers to indicate an order of consistent states of forwarding tables of a plurality of network elements of the SDN system. The SDN controller of the SDN system receives a request to recover the network to a previous state, and identifies a consistent state of forwarding table for each of the plurality of network elements utilizing the message identifiers associated the consistent states, where the identified consistent states represent the previous state of the network without the identified consistent states being captured at the same time at the plurality of network elements. The SDN controller indicates the identified consistent state for each of the plurality of the network elements to a corresponding network element, where the corresponding network element makes its forwarding table consistent with the identified consistent state.

The invention relates to a congestion control method for realizing reliable UDP transmission, belonging to an end-to-end control mechanism, which is as follow: the congestion control mechanism of end-to-end under the UDP protocol is realized with control strategy for receiving end and control strategy for sending end; when every four packets are received by the receiving end, an acknowledgement packet is sent, wherein, the information of network traffic is contained in the acknowledgement packet; based on the information contained in the acknowledgement packet, the time interval for sending the packets is adjusted by the sending end depending on the measured round trip time change of the packets, and the sending rate of packets is regulated; the congested network is recovered to unblock, and the bandwidth between both transmission sides is fully utilized. The invention has the advantages of efficient resource saving.

A procedure for designing WDM optical networks provides both working circuits and protection circuits for carrying traffic demands between node pairs. The protection circuits are activated for the purpose of network recovery in case of a fault on a working circuit. Each protection circuit is link-disjoint, and preferably node-disjoint, from its corresponding working circuit. The network is subdivided into logically defined rings, such that each working and protection circuit lies on one or more of the rings. In particular embodiments of the invention, the joint routing of circuits is carried out so as to minimize the total length of the working and protection circuits according to a length that includes a weight for each link. The weight is selected to promote the efficient packing of optical fibers with wavelength channels.

Recovery is provided in a timing network. A configuration is defined for that network, and in that configuration, an active primary server is identified that provides a clock source for the network. Additionally, an alternate server is identified that can perform the role of the active primary server, should the active primary server fail. In response to a failure of the primary server, the alternate server detects the failure and performs takeover of the primary server.

The invention belongs to the technical field of Ethernet communication, in particular relating to a method for realizing redundant ring and network recovery in Ethernet. An Ethernet ring network is formed by a plurality of switches which are connected into a ring physically and are in a chain structure logically. The invention is characterized in that only one of the switches is set to be a master station in charge of controlling the logic structure of network, the other switches are set to be slave stations; the master station and each slave station are provided with two ring ports; the state switching of the ring ports of each switch can realize backup of redundant ring chain, thus realizing network redundancy and recovery. The invention has the beneficial effects of being capable of rapidly detecting chain fault in the ring, building new network topology to recover network in occurrence of fault, realizing backup of redundant ring chain through state switching of ring port of each switchboard; and the invention has simple and effective method and can realize high applicability of industrial control network.

An approach is provided for enabling fast network restoration. A node, within a network of multiple protocol label switching (MPLS) nodes, detects a failure condition affecting the node. A micro-loop with a neighboring node of the affected node is detected. A label is determined for a subsequent hop from the neighboring node to break the micro-loop for redirecting of traffic to a destination node in the network, wherein the subsequent hop does not create a loop with respect to the affected node.

The embodiment of the invention discloses a network recovery method and a device, wherein the network recovery method comprises the steps of: obtaining the network status and available resources of the network after an optical layer of the network fails, wherein the available resources comprise free resources of the optical layer and an IP (internet protocol) layer, intact resources of an LSP of the failed optical layer and intact resources of an IP link corresponding to the LSP; computing the path information of a new optical layer LSP, the corresponding IP link and configuration informationcorresponding to the initial node and tail node of the IP link by utilizing the available resources according to the status of the network; informing the initial node and tail node of the new opticallayer LSP of building an optical layer LSP according to the path information of the new optical optical-layer LSP; and issuing the configuration information to the initial node and tail node correspondingly. The new optical layer LSP and the corresponding IP link can be computed by utilizing the available resources, thus improving the connectivity of the IP and the optical network.

A Centralized Resource Management (CRM) system that supports the sharing of all the transponders in a WXC node, i.e., any spare transponder can be reconfigured to accommodate any drop channel, regardless of wavelength or input port. Consequently, network restoration in case of network failures is supported as well as the ability to reconfigure as a result of dynamic traffic requirements in the network. CRM advantageously is applied to conventional WXC node as well as WSS-based WXC nodes in the WDM networks. Three CTM schemes which manage the transponders in the WSS-based WXC node are described along with reconfiguration algorithms for an optical switchless CRM solution.

Tis invention provides a "capacity slice' nodal switching device (in the ADM-like sense) that is designed for deployment under the p-cycle concept. The device's key architectural properties are access, east and west interfaces, with one spare and working port, on each of these interface sides, plus at least two straddling side interfaces. The straddling side interfaces each have equal line capacity to those of east and west interfaces, but all are usable for working capacity. In application, the plug cards in the nodal switching device are supplied to provide up to two line signal units on the straddling side of the p-cycle device, per diverse span arriving at the site. Network level deployment and configuration of the devices requires that they be arranged in p-cycles.

This invention relates to a service / circuit protection and a recovery method by combining multiplex section protection and mesh recovery in an automatic exchange optical network, which is suitable for the combination of a linear multiplex section protection and a protection of two-fiber two-way multiplex section, shared protection ring and recovery of the mesh. In this method, the service / circuit are first automatically protected by the multiplex section protection method, that is to say applying linear multiplex section protection or two-fiber two-way multiplex section protection ring, when the multiplex section protection is unable to continue, the mesh recovery is started at once.

A Centralized Resource Management (CRM) system that supports the sharing of all the transponders in a WXC node, i.e., any spare transponder can be reconfigured to accommodate any drop channel, regardless of wavelength or input port. Consequently, network restoration in case of network failures is supported as well as the ability to reconfigure as a result of dynamic traffic requirements in the network. CRM advantageously is applied to conventional WXC node as well as WSS-based WXC nodes in the WDM networks. Three CTM schemes which manage the transponders in the WSS-based WXC node are described along with reconfiguration algorithms for an optical switchless CRM solution.

The invention provides a multi-agent based distribution network disaster responding recovery coordinate control method and a multi-agent based distribution network disaster responding recovery coordinate control device. The method comprises the steps of firstly determining an objective function and constraint conditions of distribution network disaster responding recovery, dividing a distribution network recovery stage into a backbone channel recovery stage, a local distribution network recovery stage and a region networking recovery stage, then setting the stages of distribution network recovery to be a backbone recovery Agent, a local distribution network recovery Agent and a region networking recovery Agent respectively, establishing a blackboard model based MAS coordination mechanism, establishing an MAS based distribution network recovery control decision making system, acquiring a recovery result, carrying out verification on the recovery result by adopting a verification Agent, acquiring a final recovery result, transmitting the final recovery result to a user interface Agent through a global recovery Agent, and putting an end to distribution network disaster responding recovery. Therefore, the reliability in power supply of an electric power system is improved, the power supply reliability of the electric power system under natural disaster conditions in particular is improved, and the investment income of a power grid is improved.

A network camera 1 comprises a camera block 10 for taking an image, a signal processing unit 20 supplied with an imaging output of the camera block 10, a communication interface unit 30 which connects to an external network to establish communication, a backup memory unit 40 which temporarily stores data to be transmitted to an external device via the communication interface unit 30, a system control unit 50 which controls the above components, and the like. The system control unit 50 monitors the state of the network and stores temporarily the compressed image data to be transmitted to the server in the backup memory unit 40 when a failure occurs in the network, and controls transmission processing such that the compressed image data that has been stored in the backup memory unit 40 is transmitted to the server after the network has recovered.