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Connection setting method for use in network

  • US 6,496,482 B1
  • Filed: 02/23/1999
  • Issued: 12/17/2002
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/22/1998
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A connection setting method for use in a network produced by interconnection among a plurality of element units accommodating communication terminals, wherein, for setting up a connection between the communication terminals,a network monitoring control system, for monitoring and controlling the whole network, selects two or more of said element units, constituting a path for setting up said connection, on the basis of a connection setting request information, including quality information about said connection to be set up and outputted from the communication terminal requesting said connection;

  • an element monitoring control system, for monitoring and controlling one of the selected element units as its object, under control of said network monitoring control system, secures a resource for setting up said connection in cooperation with an element monitoring control system for monitoring and controlling another one of the selected element units, forming a part of said path and is adjacent to said object element unit, and controls said object element unit through said resource for setting up said connection; and

    said network monitoring control system evaluates the result of connection setting control by said element monitoring control system to judge whether or not it meets said quality information as a whole.

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