Device and method for changing connection types between a fixed or variable state with an external switching unit
AssigneeFujitsu Limited
InventorHiroshi Yamada
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a connection data change method and device, and a switching unit for changing connection data for a node constituting a network, and includes a connection data management part managing connection data for connection with another switching unit and a change operation part changing the connection data so that the connection with the other switching unit is changed to a fixed connection type or a variable connection type, wherein the change operation part changes the connection with the other switching unit to the variable connection type when the connection is made and to the fixed connection type after the connection is completed.
Claims14
A hardware connection data change device, comprising:
- a connection data management part configured to store and manage connection data on a connection of an associated switching unit, in which the connection data change device is provided, with an external switching unit;
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- a change operation part configured to change a type of the connection of the associated switching unit with the external switching unit in the connection data,
- wherein said change operation part changes the type of the connection to the external switching unit from a variable connection type to a fixed connection type in the connection data, upon receiving a request to change the type of the connection to the external switching unit in the connection data after the connection of the variable connection type to the external switching unit is dynamically set up, before the set-up connection is reset, and
- the connection data management part stores information on the connection of the variable connection type after the change operation part changes the type of the connection from the variable connection type to the fixed connection type in the connection data.
A switching unit, comprising:
- a connection data management part configured to store and manage connection data on a connection with an external switching unit;
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- a change operation part configured to change a type of the connection with the external switching unit in the connection data,
- wherein said change operation part changes the type of the connection to the external switching unit from a variable connection type to a fixed connection type in the connection data, upon receiving a request to change the type of the connection to the external switching unit in the connection data after the connection of the variable connection type to the external switching unit is dynamically set up, before the set-up connection is reset, and
- the connection data management part stores information on the connection of the variable connection type after the change operation part changes the type of the connection from the variable connection type to the fixed connection type in the connection data.
A connection data change method, comprising the steps of:
- dynamically setting up a connection of a variable connection type of a first switching unit with a second switching unit;
- extracting connection data on the connection of the first switching unit with the second switching unit;
- changing a type of the connection of the first switching unit with the second switching unit from the variable connection type to a fixed connection type in the extracted connection data, upon receiving a request to change the type of the connection of the first switching unit to the second switching unit in the extracted connection data, before the set-up connection is reset;
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- storing information on the connection of the variable connection type after the type of the connection is changed from the variable connection type to the fixed connection type in the extracted connection data.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.