AUTOMATICLLY ACTIVATED QUALITY MEASUREMENT

• US 20090040933A1
• Filed: 07/26/2005
• Published: 02/12/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 08/09/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Shell Oil Company (Shell Plc)
• Original Assignee: Shell Oil Company (Shell Plc)
• Inventors: Rosner, Sonke, Boll, Norbert
• Application Number:
  US11/658,374
• Publication Number:
  US 20090040933A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/242
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0631 using root cause analysis; using analysis of correlation between notifications, alarms or events based on decision criteria, e.g. hierarchy, tree or time analysis
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0677 Localisation of faults
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/0823 Errors, e.g. transmission errors
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/10 Active monitoring, e.g. heartbeat, ping or trace-route

Abstract

According to one aspect of the invention, determination of data that allows conclusions to be drawn about the cause of a disturbance is activated. The cause of the disturbance is then determined by a diagnostic application that takes the data into account. Data determination is automatically deactivated by taking into account a configurable time limit or after a fixed period of time. Activation of data determination is chronologically closely linked to the occurrence of the disturbance such that particularly meaningful data is determined for determining the cause.

Claims

1-10. -10. (canceled)

11. A method for determining a cause of a disturbance in a communication network having a product by which data is determined and having a diagnostic application, comprising:

detecting an occurrence of the disturbance;

automatically activating a determination of the data in result of the detection;

transferring the data to the diagnostic application; and

determining the cause by the diagnostic application by using the transferred data

12. The method as claimed claim 11, wherein the determination is started in accordance with a criterion.

13. The method as claimed claim 12,

wherein the product is embodied as a network element of the communication network, and

wherein the criterion is a signal-to-noise ratio dropping below a specific threshold value.

14. The method as claimed claim 13, wherein the threshold value is configurable.

15. The method as claimed claim 14, wherein the detection and the activation occur in the product.

16. The method as claimed claim 12,

wherein the product is embodied as a network element of the communication network, and

wherein the criterion is a bit error rate exceeding a specific threshold value.

17. The method as claimed claim 16, wherein the threshold value is configurable.

18. The method as claimed claim 17, wherein the detection and the activation occur in the product.

19. The method as claimed claim 12, wherein the data is embodied as quality monitoring data.

20. The method as claimed claim 12, wherein the data is embodied as protocol monitoring data.

21. The method as claimed claim 12, wherein the data is embodied as measurement data.

22. The method as claimed claim 12, wherein the determination of the data is automatically deactivated.

23. The method as claimed claim 22, wherein the determination of the data is automatically deactivated using a configurable time limit.

24. The method as claimed claim 22, wherein the determination of the data is automatically deactivated after a fixed period of time.

25. A product, comprising:

a detector that detects an occurrence of a disturbance;

an activator that automatically activates a determination of the data in result of the detection; and

a sender for transferring the data to a diagnostic application;

wherein the diagnostic application determines a cause of the disturbance by using the transferred data.

26. A computer program having code that executes on a processor, comprising:

detecting an occurrence of a disturbance;

automatically activating a determination of data in result of the detection;

transferring the data to the diagnostic application; and

determining a cause by the diagnostic application by using the transferred data