Patents by Inventor Fatai Zhang

Fatai Zhang has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11153148
    Abstract: The application provides a method for monitoring resource state in a communication network that includes a plurality of nodes. A node in the communication network determines whether a label switching path connection, which connects the node with an adjacent node, is established successfully. Based on a determination that the label switching path connection is not established successfully, the node determines whether a data plane resource state of the node and a control plane resource state of the node are consistent. Based on a determination that the data plane resource state of the node and the control plane resource state of the node are inconsistent, the node reports the inconsistency to a management plane of the node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Fatai Zhang, Jianhua Gao
  • Publication number: 20190245733
    Abstract: The application provides a method for monitoring resource state in a communication network that includes a plurality of nodes. A node in the communication network determines whether a label switching path connection, which connects the node with an adjacent node, is established successfully. Based on a determination that the label switching path connection is not established successfully, the node determines whether a data plane resource state of the node and a control plane resource state of the node are consistent. Based on a determination that the data plane resource state of the node and the control plane resource state of the node are inconsistent, the node reports the inconsistency to a management plane of the node.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2019
    Publication date: August 8, 2019
    Applicant: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Fatai Zhang, Jianhua Gao
  • Patent number: 10298438
    Abstract: A resource state monitoring method, device and communication network are provided. The method includes: acquiring network event state information of a node in a network running process, detecting a data plane resource state of the node and a control plane resource state of the node when it determines that the network event state information of the node meets a resource state detection triggering condition, and reporting a detection result to a management plane of the node. The device includes an acquiring unit, a checking unit, a triggering unit, a detecting unit and a reporting unit. The network includes several nodes, a communication control device and a resource state monitoring device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Fatai Zhang, Jianhua Gao
  • Patent number: 9705818
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention relate a method, an apparatus, and a system for assigning a tributary port number. The method includes: receiving a service path request message including a service type for establishing a service path used to bear a Lower Order ODU service; determining an OTU link; determining a free tributary slot resource in the OTU link; if a MSI bytes in the OTU link indicates a service type, assigning a tributary port number other than tributary port numbers used by Lower Order ODU services having the same type as the Lower Order ODU service in the OTU link; or if the MSI bytes in the OTU link does not indicate a service type, assigning a tributary port number other than tributary port numbers used by all types of Lower Order ODU services in the OTU link; and sending a service path acknowledgment message to the neighboring node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yi Lin, Qiuyou Wu, Fatai Zhang, Jianrui Han, Xiaobing Zi
  • Publication number: 20150207753
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention relate a method, an apparatus, and a system for assigning a tributary port number. The method includes: receiving a service path request message including a service type for establishing a service path used to bear a Lower Order ODU service; determining an OTU link; determining a free tributary slot resource in the OTU link; if a MSI bytes in the OTU link indicates a service type, assigning a tributary port number other than tributary port numbers used by Lower Order ODU services having the same type as the Lower Order ODU service in the OTU link; or if the MSI bytes in the OTU link does not indicate a service type, assigning a tributary port number other than tributary port numbers used by all types of Lower Order ODU services in the OTU link; and sending a service path acknowledgment message to the neighboring node.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2015
    Publication date: July 23, 2015
    Inventors: Yi Lin, Qiuyou Wu, Fatai Zhang, Jianrui Han, Xiaobing Zi
  • Patent number: 9008511
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention relate a method, an apparatus, and a system for assigning a tributary port number. The method includes: receiving a service path request message which is sent by a neighboring node and carries a service type; determining, according to the service path request message, an OTU link used to bear the ODU service, determining and reserving, according to the service type in the service path request message, a free tributary slot resource used to bear the ODU service in the OTU link, and assigning a tributary port number to the free tributary slot resource; and sending a service path acknowledgment message to the neighboring node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yi Lin, Qiuyou Wu, Fatai Zhang, Jianrui Han, Xiaobing Zi
  • Patent number: 8761024
    Abstract: A resource state monitoring method, device and communication network are provided. The method includes: acquiring network event state information of a node in a network running process, detecting a data plane resource state of the node and a control plane resource state of the node when it determines that the network event state information of the node meets a resource state detection triggering condition, and reporting a detection result to a management plane of the node. The device includes an acquiring unit, a checking unit, a triggering unit, a detecting unit and a reporting unit. The network includes several nodes, a communication control device and a resource state monitoring device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Fatai Zhang, Jianhua Gao
  • Patent number: 8737394
    Abstract: A route computation method and system, and a path computation element (PCE) are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jixiong Dong, Fatai Zhang
  • Patent number: 8594140
    Abstract: A method, device, and system for multiplexing and mapping optical signals and demultiplexing and demapping optical signals are provided. The method for multiplexing and mapping optical signals includes the following steps: A label object that indicates a multiplexing and mapping relation is acquired. The label object includes a label and a label header. The label includes a type indication field and a TS indication field. The label object predefines a multiplexing and mapping policy about a first optical signal on a first optical channel and a second optical signal on a second optical channel. The first optical signal is multiplexed and mapped to the second optical signal according to the multiplexing and mapping policy. Therefore, when optical signals are multiplexed and mapped and are demultiplexed and demapped, so that an advantage of saving signaling overhead is realized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2013
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Fatai Zhang, Huiying Xu, Xiaobing Zi, Yi Lin
  • Patent number: 8582968
    Abstract: A method, apparatus and system for advertising a routing protocol message and calculating a route are provided which solve the problems that the time of connection establishment or rerouting in wavelength routing is too long and that wavelength utilization efficiency is low. The method for advertising the routing protocol message includes: obtaining node information and link information of a node, in which the node information contains port cross-connection capability information of the node, and the link information contains wavelength restriction information and wavelength status information of each link connected to the node; carrying the obtained node information and link information in a Type-Length-Value object of a routing protocol message, and advertising the routing protocol message in the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Fatai Zhang, Jianrui Han, Yi Lin
  • Patent number: 8463120
    Abstract: A method for realizing service protection in the automatically switched optical network includes following steps: after any defect occurs on the working paths that carry the service, the first node and the last node of the working paths sends the requests to restore the paths setup in opposite directions, respectively; at least one intermediate node in the restoration path establishes a connection according to the restoration path setup request, and forwards the restoration path setup request hop by hop, until the setup of the recovering path is finished; the service is switched from the working paths to the restoration paths. A system for realizing service protection and a node device in an ASON is also provided. The paths restoration process can be faster obviously using this invention, and the restoration time can be shortened, and the work efficiency and reliability can be improved, and the service can be ensured to be restored.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2013
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Fatai Zhang, Huiying Xu, Yongliang Xu
  • Patent number: 8442190
    Abstract: A method, a system and a device for call processing are disclosed in the embodiments of the present invention. The method includes: obtaining, by a call initiator, address information of all or part of call managers in a network domain that processes a call, where the all or part of the call managers include a call manager that processes the call and is adjacent to the call initiator; sending, by the call initiator, a first call creating request message to an adjacent call manager according to the address information of the all or part of the call managers; and receiving, by the call initiator, a first call creating response message from the adjacent call manager. In the case that a service at a client side is required to be sent through multiple networks at a server side, inter-domain link selection and admission control may be implemented through section call processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xiaobing Zi, Fatai Zhang
  • Publication number: 20120189304
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention relate a method, an apparatus, and a system for assigning a tributary port number. The method includes: receiving a service path request message which is sent by a neighboring node and carries a service type; determining, according to the service path request message, an OTU link used to bear the ODU service, determining and reserving, according to the service type in the service path request message, a free tributary slot resource used to bear the ODU service in the OTU link, and assigning a tributary port number to the free tributary slot resource; and sending a service path acknowledgment message to the neighboring node.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2012
    Publication date: July 26, 2012
    Applicant: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yi Lin, Qiuyou Wu, Fatai Zhang, Jianrui Han, Xiaobing Zi
  • Publication number: 20120063779
    Abstract: A method, apparatus and system for advertising a routing protocol message and calculating a route are provided which solve the problems that the time of connection establishment or rerouting in wavelength routing is too long and that wavelength utilization efficiency is low. The method for advertising the routing protocol message includes: obtaining node information and link information of a node, in which the node information contains port cross-connection capability information of the node, and the link information contains wavelength restriction information and wavelength status information of each link connected to the node; carrying the obtained node information and link information in a Type-Length-Value object of a routing protocol message, and advertising the routing protocol message in the network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2011
    Publication date: March 15, 2012
    Applicant: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Fatai Zhang, Jianrui Han, Yi Lin
  • Publication number: 20110311039
    Abstract: A method, a system and a device for call processing are disclosed in the embodiments of the present invention. The method includes: obtaining, by a call initiator, address information of all or part of call managers in a network domain that processes a call, where the all or part of the call managers include a call manager that processes the call and is adjacent to the call initiator; sending, by the call initiator, a first call creating request message to an adjacent call manager according to the address information of the all or part of the call managers; and receiving, by the call initiator, a first call creating response message from the adjacent call manager. In the case that a service at a client side is required to be sent through multiple networks at a server side, inter-domain link selection and admission control may be implemented through section call processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2011
    Publication date: December 22, 2011
    Applicant: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xiaobing Zi, Fatai Zhang
  • Publication number: 20110296016
    Abstract: A resource state monitoring method, device and communication network are provided. The method includes: acquiring network event state information of a node in a network running process, detecting a data plane resource state of the node and a control plane resource state of the node when it determines that the network event state information of the node meets a resource state detection triggering condition, and reporting a detection result to a management plane of the node. The device includes an acquiring unit, a checking unit, a triggering unit, a detecting unit and a reporting unit. The network includes several nodes, a communication control device and a resource state monitoring device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2011
    Publication date: December 1, 2011
    Applicant: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Fatai ZHANG, Jianhua GAO
  • Publication number: 20110286354
    Abstract: A resource state monitoring method, device and communication network are provided. The method includes: acquiring network event state information of a node in a network running process, detecting a data plane resource state of the node and a control plane resource state of the node when it determines that the network event state information of the node meets a resource state detection triggering condition, and reporting a detection result to a management plane of the node. The device includes an acquiring unit, a checking unit, a triggering unit, a detecting unit and a reporting unit. The network includes several nodes, a communication control device and a resource state monitoring device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2011
    Publication date: November 24, 2011
    Applicant: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Fatai ZHANG, Jianhua GAO
  • Patent number: 8014300
    Abstract: A resource state monitoring method, device and communication network are provided. The method includes: acquiring network event state information of a node in a network running process, detecting a data plane resource state of the node and a control plane resource state of the node when it determines that the network event state information of the node meets a resource state detection triggering condition, and reporting a detection result to a management plane of the node. The device includes an acquiring unit, a checking unit, a triggering unit, a detecting unit and a reporting unit. The network includes several nodes, a communication control device and a resource state monitoring device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2011
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Fatai Zhang, Jianhua Gao
  • Publication number: 20110116793
    Abstract: A method, device, and system for multiplexing and mapping optical signals and demultiplexing and demapping optical signals are provided. The method for multiplexing and mapping optical signals includes the following steps: A label object that indicates a multiplexing and mapping relation is acquired. The label object includes a label and a label header. The label includes a type indication field and a TS indication field. The label object predefines a multiplexing and mapping policy about a first optical signal on a first optical channel and a second optical signal on a second optical channel. The first optical signal is multiplexed and mapped to the second optical signal according to the multiplexing and mapping policy. Therefore, when optical signals are multiplexed and mapped and are demultiplexed and demapped, so that an advantage of saving signaling overhead is realized.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2011
    Publication date: May 19, 2011
    Applicant: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Fatai ZHANG, Huiying XU, Xiaobing ZI, Yi LIN
  • Publication number: 20100265943
    Abstract: A route computation method includes: receiving, by a first bottom-level PCE, a path computation command, performing a route computation on a routing domain managed thereby, obtaining and sending a path segment set with a first node to an upper-level PCE thereof; sending, by the upper-level PCE receiving the path segment set sent by a lower-level PCE, the path computation command to another lower-level PCE according to routing domains that a path to be established between the first node and a second node sequentially passes through, receiving path segment sets sent by all lower-level PCEs, and combining and sending all the received path segment sets to an upper-level PCE thereof, until a top-level PCE receives path segment sets sent by all lower-level PCEs thereof; and combining, by the top-level PCE, all the received path segment sets to generate a set of paths between the first node and the second node.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2010
    Publication date: October 21, 2010
    Applicant: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jixiong DONG, Fatai Zhang