Juliet Zhe Cai

US Patent:

20040057390, Mar 25, 2004

Filed:

Aug 2, 2002

Appl. No.:

10/211047

Inventors:

Erich Boleyn - Portland OR, US
Juliet Cai - Beaverton OR, US
Zhi Wang - Beaverton OR, US
Qiyong Bian - Hillsboro OR, US
Jonathan Tuchow - Portland OR, US
Alfred She - Beaverton OR, US

International Classification:

H04J001/16
H04J003/14

US Classification:

370/254000

Abstract:

An API including a registration function and a configuration function, is provided to an optical networking apparatus to facilitate registration of configuration specification delimiter pairs by service routines of function blocks of multi-protocol optical networking modules (MPONM), and extraction of configuration specifications for the function blocks from a configuration specification input set using the registered configuration specification delimiter pairs. In one embodiment, the configuration function also receives current configuration of the function blocks, and merges the received current configurations of the function blocks into a configuration specification output set, separating the merged configuration specification using the registered configuration specification delimiters.

US Patent:

20040024857, Feb 5, 2004

Filed:

Aug 2, 2002

Appl. No.:

10/210989

Inventors:

Juliet Cai - Beaverton OR, US

International Classification:

G06F015/16
G06F015/173

US Classification:

709/223000, 709/230000

Abstract:

An API is provided to an optical networking apparatus to facilitate uniform access, control or interaction with its multi-protocol optical networking modules (MPONM) by its applications. Each of the MPONM has a number of function blocks having corresponding drivers. In response to an application's request to initialize a MPONM, the module initialization function of the API cooperates with the function block drivers to create a data structure for the MPONM, and returns a handle of the data structure to the application. Thereafter, in response to a need to have an operation performed in a function block of a MPONM, such as a capture and/or insertion resource, the application makes the request with the API, including with the request an identification of the function block, and the handle of the data structure of the MPONM. Once a capture/insertion resource has been allocated, the API returns a handle corresponding to the allocated resource to the application for use in further requests.