Communication system power arrangement
First Claim
1. A power monitoring arrangement for a communication system having a plurality of circuit carriers, said arrangement comprising,means for receiving a power alarm generated by at least one of said circuit carriers, andmeans responsive to said power alarm for providing an output if at least there was at substantially the time said power alarm was generated a substantial disparity between the level of traffic being processed by said one circuit carrier and the level of traffic being processed by at least one other of said circuit carriers.
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Abstract
A transient power alarm is often the result of a traffic overload placed on a communication system circuit carrier circuit. The disclosed power control arrangement recognizes such transient power alarms and outputs a special message to alert the system user to the possibility that traffic grading across carrier is unbalanced. The control arrangement also monitors the time that the system is powered solely by reserve battery and sheds its traffic load if the time that the system is operating solely on reserve battery exceeds a first threshold. Also, the system is programmed to automatically disable itself if the reserve battery time exceeds a second threshold.
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1. A power monitoring arrangement for a communication system having a plurality of circuit carriers, said arrangement comprising,
means for receiving a power alarm generated by at least one of said circuit carriers, and means responsive to said power alarm for providing an output if at least there was at substantially the time said power alarm was generated a substantial disparity between the level of traffic being processed by said one circuit carrier and the level of traffic being processed by at least one other of said circuit carriers.
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2. A power monitoring arrangement for a communication system having a plurality of circuit carriers, said arrangement comprising,
means for receiving a power alarm from at least one of said circuit carriers, and means responsive to said power alarm for providing an output if the level of traffic being processed by said one circuit carrier was at least at a predetermined threshold, and there was a substantial disparity between said one circuit carrier traffic level and the level of traffic being processed by at least one other of said circuit carriers.
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8. A power monitoring arrangement for a communication system having a plurality of circuit carriers, said arrangement comprising,
means for receiving a power alarm from at least one of said carrier circuits, means responsive to receipt of a power alarm from an individual one of said circuit carriers for determining at least if the level of traffic being processed by said one circuit carrier has reached a traffic threshold, and means for providing a first output when said at least one circuit carrier traffic level is below said traffic threshold and for providing a second output when said one circuit carrier traffic level is at least at said traffic threshold and there is a substantial disparity at the time of receipt of said at least one circuit carrier power alarm between the level of traffic being processed by said at least one circuit carrier and the level of traffic being processed by others of said circuit carriers.
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14. A power monitoring arrangement for a communication system having a plurality of circuit carriers, said arrangement comprising,
means for receiving power alarms from at least one of said circuit carriers, and means operative when the rate of occurrence of said power alarms reaches a predefined system alarm rate for providing an output if, at substantially the time of reaching said system alarm rate, there was at least a substantial disparity between the level of traffic being processed by said one circuit carrier and the level of traffic being processed by at least one other of said circuit carriers.
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