Resource Allocation Manager for Wireless Diagnostic Systems

• US 20070086351A1
• Filed: 09/29/2006
• Published: 04/19/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 05/20/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Finisar Corporation (II-VI Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: Finisar Corporation (II-VI Incorporated)
• Inventors: Jones, Derek, Noble, Gayle, Teeple, William, Hudson, Jonathan, Jacobsen, Paul
• Application Number:
  US11/537,599
• Publication Number:
  US 20070086351A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/244
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 17/0085 using test signal generators
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/022 Site diversity; Macro-diversity using two or more spaced independent antennas H04B7/04
• CPC Class Codes: H04K 2203/18 for wireless local area networks or WLAN
• CPC Class Codes: H04K 2203/36 including means for exchanging jamming data between transmitter and receiver, e.g. in forward or backward direction
• CPC Class Codes: H04K 3/45 characterized by including monitoring of the target or target signal, e.g. in reactive jammers or follower jammers for example by means of an alternation of jamming phases and monitoring phases, called "look-through mode"
• CPC Class Codes: H04K 3/46 characterized in that the jamming signal is produced by retransmitting a received signal, after delay or processing
• CPC Class Codes: H04K 3/94 related to allowing or preventing testing or assessing

Abstract

This disclosure relates implementing resource allocation in a wireless communication system. In one example, first a resource allocation manager maintains a database that includes categories of wireless end point device errors. Each category in the database is cross-referenced to a corresponding diagnostic service. Next, the resource allocation manager receives a notification of an error in a wireless end point device. Then, the resource allocation manager categorizing the error. Next, the resource allocation manager queries the database to identify a diagnostic service that is cross-referenced to the error category to which the error corresponds. Finally, the resource allocation manager sends the notification of the error to the diagnostic service that is cross-referenced to the error category to which the error corresponds.

Claims

1. A method for resource allocation, the method comprising:

maintaining a database that includes categories of wireless end point device errors, each category being cross-referenced to a corresponding diagnostic service;

receiving a notification of an error in a wireless end point device;

categorizing the error;

querying the database to identify a diagnostic service that is cross-referenced to the error category to which the error corresponds; and

sending the notification of the error to the diagnostic service that is cross-referenced to the error category to which the error corresponds.

2. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the diagnostic services comprise diagnostic services associate with one or more of a statistical monitor, a protocol analyzer, a bit error rate tester, a generator, a jammer, or some combination thereof.

3. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein receiving notification of an error in a wireless end point device comprises receiving notification of the error from an aggregation server.

4. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein receiving notification of an error in a wireless end point device comprises receiving notification of the error from a wireless diagnostic device.

5. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein receiving notification of an error in a wireless end point device comprises receiving diagnostic data relevant to the error.

6. The method as recited in claim 5, wherein sending the notification of the error to the diagnostic service that is cross-referenced to an error category to which the error corresponds comprises sending the diagnostic data relevant to the error to the diagnostic service.

7. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein receiving notification of an error in a wireless end point device comprises receiving information concerning the location of diagnostic data relevant to the error.

8. The method as recited in claim 7, further comprising retrieving the diagnostic data.

9. The method as recited in claim 8, wherein sending the notification of the error to a diagnostic service that is cross-referenced to the error category to which the error corresponds comprises sending the diagnostic data relevant to the error to the diagnostic service.

10. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein sending the notification of the error to the diagnostic service that is cross-referenced to the error category to which the error corresponds comprising initializing the diagnostic service.

11. The method as recited in claim 1, further comprising receiving a diagnosis of the cause of the error from the diagnostic service that is cross-referenced to the error category to which the error corresponds.

12. The method as recited in claim 11, further comprising reporting the diagnosis of the cause of the error to a network administrator.

13. The method as recited in claim 1, further comprising determining whether any technicians are available to address the error.

14. The method as recited in claim 13, further comprising logging the error if no technicians are available to address the error.

15. The method as recited in claim 13, further comprising wherein if no technicians are available to address the error, assessing whether immediate attention needs to be directed to the error, and if so, sending a notification to make a technician available to address the error.

16. The method as recited in claim 13, further comprising sending a notification of the error to an available technician if one or more technicians are available to address the error.

17. The method as recited in claim 13, sending a notification of the error and of the diagnostic service assigned to address the error if one or more technicians are available to address the error.

18. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein receiving a notification of an error in a wireless end point device comprises receiving notification of an error in a wireless end point device over a wireless communication channel.

19. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein sending the notification of the error to the diagnostic service that is cross-referenced to the error category to which the error corresponds comprises sending the notification of the error to the diagnostic service that is cross-referenced to the error category to which the error corresponds over a wireless communication channel.

20. The method as recited in claim 1, further comprising:

receiving a solution to the error from the diagnostic service that is cross-referenced to the error category to which the error corresponds; and

automatically reconfiguring the end point device according to the solution.