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Apparatus and method for managing networks having resources having reduced, nonzero functionality

  • US 7,991,889 B2
  • Filed: 05/07/2004
  • Issued: 08/02/2011
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/07/2004
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method, comprising the steps of:

  • employing, upon notification from a network operations center (NOC) to operate in a deferred maintenance mode when a redundant resource fails, one or more strategies to select and/or allocate one or more resources of a network element;

    determining if the one or more resources of the network element is operating in a state of reduced, nonzero functionality; and

    employing a resource of the one or more resources of the network element to provide at least a subset of functionality of the network element when the resource of the one or more resources of the network element operates in the state of reduced, nonzero functionality.

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