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Communication apparatus, control method, and computer readable information recording medium

US7580348B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateDec 28, 2004
Grant dateAug 25, 2009
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Expiry dateSep 25, 2026

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04L41/0663
  • WIPO fieldDigital communication
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

In order to rapidly restoration at a time of fault occurrence without lowering usage efficiency of circuit resources, in a configuration in which a plurality of physical circuits are grouped and communication is carried out with transmission data being distributed, a circuit having the minimum traffic from among the grouped circuits is set as a standby circuit, and, a traffic in a fault circuit is transferred to the standby circuit in a lump when a fault occurs in another working circuit.

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