DIAGNOSTIC DEVICE

• US 20080075103A1
• Filed: 10/31/2007
• Published: 03/27/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 05/20/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Finisar Corporation (II-VI Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: Finisar Corporation (II-VI Incorporated)
• Inventors: Rose, Scott, Jones, Derek, Jacobsen, Paul, Haber, Sara, Ludwig, Ulysses, Hudson, Jonathan, Schondelmayer, Adam, Noble, Gayle, Teeple, William
• Application Number:
  US11/930,677
• Publication Number:
  US 20080075103A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/429
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/069 using logs of notifications; Post-processing of notifications
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/50 Testing arrangements

Abstract

A diagnostic device, such as a network probe or a blade, with wired and/or wireless communication capabilities. In one example embodiment, a network probe includes a processor, a memory in communication with the processor, and a buffer in communication with the processor. In this example embodiment, the processor is programmed to identify a triggering event in data received by the network probe and store, in the buffer, data that is associated with the triggering event.

Claims

1. A network probe comprising:

a processor;

a memory in communication with the processor; and

a buffer in communication with the processor,

wherein the processor is programmed to;

identify a triggering event in data received by the network probe; and

store in the buffer data that is associated with the triggering event.

2. The network probe as recited in claim 1, wherein the data that is associated with the triggering event comprises data received by the network probe before the reception of data in which the triggering event was detected.

3. The network probe as recited in claim 1, wherein the data that is associated with the triggering event comprises data in which the triggering event was detected.

4. The network probe as recited in claim 1, wherein the data that is associated with the triggering event comprises data received after the reception data in which the triggering event was detected.

5. The network probe as recited in claim 1, wherein the data that is associated with the triggering event consists of packet headers.

6. The network probe as recited in claim 1, wherein the portion of the data that is associated with the triggering event comprises packet headers of data received by the network probe over a time span of about three minutes to about five minutes.

7. The network probe as recited in claim 1, wherein the processor is further programmed to send the data stored in the buffer to another network component.

8. The network probe as recited in claim 1, wherein the network probe is programmed to send and receive data over a physical transmission medium.

9. The network probe as recited in claim 1, wherein the network probe is programmed to send and receive data over a wireless channel.

10. A network probe comprising:

a processor;

a memory in communication with the processor;

a buffer in communication with the processor; and

a connector in communication with the processor and configured to couple with a physical transmission medium,

wherein the processor is programmed to;

identify a triggering event in data received by the network probe;

store, in the buffer, packet headers of data that is associated with the triggering event; and

transmit the packet headers.

11. The network probe as recited in claim 10, wherein the data that is associated with the triggering event comprises data received by the network probe before the reception of data in which the triggering event was detected.

12. The network probe as recited in claim 10, wherein the data that is associated with the triggering event comprises data in which the triggering event was detected.

13. The network probe as recited in claim 10, wherein the data that is associated with the triggering event comprises data received after the reception data in which the triggering event was detected.

14. The network probe as recited in claim 10, wherein the processor is programmed to store, in the buffer, packet headers of data received by the network probe over a time span of about three minutes to about five minutes.

15. The network probe as recited in claim 10, wherein the processor is programmed to transmit the packet headers over a physical transmission medium to another network component.

16. The network probe as recited in claim 10, wherein the connector is one of an LC connector, an SC connector, or an RJ-45 connector.