NETWORK DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ACCESSING STORAGE DEVICES

• US 20070038881A1
• Filed: 04/11/2006
• Published: 02/15/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 08/15/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Finisar Corporation (II-VI Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: Finisar Corporation (II-VI Incorporated)
• Inventors: Noble, Gayle, Jennings, Logan
• Application Number:
  US11/279,360
• Publication Number:
  US 20070038881A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 714/2
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/00 Error detection; Error correction; Monitoring error detection, correction or monitoring in information storage based on relative movement between record carrier and transducer G11B20/18; monitoring, i.e. supervising the progress of recording or reproducing G11B27/36; in static stores G11C29/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/042 comprising distributed management centres cooperatively managing the network

Abstract

A network diagnostic system may include one or more network diagnostic components. A network diagnostic component may include one or more storage devices and may be configured to perform one or more network diagnostic functions. The network diagnostic component and/or at least one other network diagnostic component may access the storage devices to help perform one or more network diagnostic functions and/or to help perform other processes.

Claims

1. A network diagnostic system comprising:

a first network diagnostic component configured to perform at least one network diagnostic function, the first network diagnostic component including a first storage device; and

a second network diagnostic component configured to perform at least one network diagnostic function, the second network diagnostic component including a second storage device, the second network diagnostic component being configured to access the first and second storage devices via an abstraction layer.

2. The network diagnostic system as in claim 1, wherein the first storage device comprises memory.

3. The network diagnostic system as in claim 1, wherein the first network diagnostic component comprises a protocol analyzer.

4. The network diagnostic system as in claim 1, wherein the first network diagnostic component comprises a first protocol analyzer and wherein the second network diagnostic component comprises a second protocol analyzer.

5. The network diagnostic system as in claim 1, wherein the first network diagnostic component forms at least a portion of a printed circuit board and wherein the second network diagnostic component forms at least a portion of a printed circuit board.

6. The network diagnostic system as in claim 1, wherein the second network diagnostic component is configured to read from at least a portion of the first storage device via the abstraction layer.

7. The network diagnostic system as in claim 1, wherein the second network diagnostic component is configured to write to at least a portion of the first storage device via the abstraction layer.

8. The network diagnostic system as in claim 1, wherein the second network diagnostic component is configured to compare at least a portion of the contents of the first storage device and at least a portion of the contents of the second storage device.

9. The network diagnostic system as in claim 1, wherein the second network diagnostic component is configured to copy at least a portion of the contents of the second storage device to the first storage device.

10. The network diagnostic system as in claim 1, wherein the first network diagnostic component is configured to perform a first bit sequence capture;

wherein the second network diagnostic component is configured to perform a second bit sequence capture; and

wherein the second network diagnostic component is configured to compare at least a portion of the first bit sequence capture and at least a portion of the second bit sequence capture.

11. A network diagnostic system comprising:

a first network diagnostic component configured to perform at least one network diagnostic function, the first network diagnostic component including a storage device, the first network diagnostic component being configured to access the storage device of the first network diagnostic component and a storage device of a second network diagnostic component via an abstraction layer, the second diagnostic component being configured to perform at least one network diagnostic function.

12. The network diagnostic system as in claim 11, wherein the storage device of the second network diagnostic component comprises memory.

13. The network diagnostic system as in claim 11, wherein the first network diagnostic component comprises a protocol analyzer.

14. The network diagnostic system as in claim 11, wherein the first network diagnostic component comprises a first protocol analyzer and wherein the second network diagnostic component comprises a second protocol analyzer.

15. The network diagnostic system as in claim 11, wherein the first network diagnostic component forms at least a portion of a printed circuit board and wherein the second network diagnostic component forms at least a portion of a printed circuit board.

16. A network diagnostic system comprising:

a network accessible component including a storage device, the network accessible component being configured to permit a network diagnostic component to map to the storage device, the network diagnostic component being configured to perform at least one network diagnostic function.

17. The network diagnostic system as in claim 16, wherein the storage device of the network accessible component comprises memory.

18. The network diagnostic system as in claim 16, wherein the network accessible component comprises a protocol analyzer.

19. The network diagnostic system as in claim 16, wherein the network accessible component comprises a first protocol analyzer and wherein the network diagnostic component comprises a second protocol analyzer.

20. The network diagnostic system as in claim 16, wherein the network accessible component forms at least a portion of a printed circuit board and wherein the network diagnostic component forms at least a portion of a printed circuit board.