Method and device for processing switching control command

• US 8,665,867 B2
• Filed: 05/17/2010
• Issued: 03/04/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 06/01/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: ZTE Corporation
• Original Assignee: ZTE Corporation
• Inventors: Wu, Qing, Wang, Xiuguo
• Primary Examiner(s): Ly, Anh-Vu
• Assistant Examiner(s): BHATTI, HASHIM S
• Application Number:
  US13/375,663
• Publication Number:
  US 20120069841A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,387 Days
• Field of Search: 370/360, 398/5, 398/12
• US Class Current: 370/360
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0668 by dynamic selection of recovery network elements, e.g. replacement by the most appropriate element after failure
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 11/0067 Provisions for optical access or distribution networks, e.g. Gigabit Ethernet Passive Optical Network (GE-PON), ATM-based Passive Optical Network (A-PON), PON-Ring

Abstract

The present invention provides a method for processing a switch control command for solving the problem that consistency of data of the network device and the network management is unable to be kept in the process of processing the switch control command in the prior art. This method includes: when a priority of obtained trigger information is higher than a priority of a switch control command, discarding the switch control command (103); and reporting the discarded switch control command to a control system which manages the network device (104). The present invention further provides an device for processing a switch control command.

Claims

1. A method for processing a switch control command comprising:

discarding a switch control command when a priority of obtained trigger information is higher than that of the switch control command, and storing discarding information of the switch control command into a reporting buffer;

querying periodically whether there is the discarding information of the switch control command in the reporting buffer; and

when there is discarding information of the switch control command in the reporting buffer, packing the discarding information of the switch control command and reporting the discarding information to a control system which manages a network device via a communication interface.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the obtained trigger information is obtained alert information or received remote Automatic Protection Switching (APS) information.

3. The method according to claim 2, wherein when the obtained trigger information is the received remote APS information, the method further comprising:

verifying legality of the received remote APS information.

4. An apparatus for processing a switch control command comprising at least one processor for executing instructions, wherein the at least one processor and instructions cause the apparatus to:

obtain trigger information;

comparing a priority of the obtained trigger information with that of a switch control command;

discard the switch control command;

store discarding information of the switch control command into a reporting buffer;

query periodically whether there is the discarding information of the switch control command in the reporting buffer; and

when there is the discarding information of the switch control command in the reporting buffer, pack the discarding information of the switch control command and report the discarding information to a control system which manages a network device via a communication interface.

5. The apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the obtained trigger information is obtained alert information or received remote Automatic Protection Switching (APS) information.

6. The apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the at least one processor and instructions further cause the apparatus to:

verify legality of the received remote APS information.