CRC counter normalization
AssigneeAware, Inc.
InventorMarcos C. Tzannes
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Abstract
The ability to accurately and efficiently calculate and report communication errors is becoming more important than ever in today's communications environment. More specifically calculating and reporting CRC anomalies in a consistent manner across a plurality of communications connections in a network is crucial to accurate error reporting. Through a normalization technique applied to a CRC computation period (e.g., the PERp value), accurate error identification and reporting for each individual connection can be achieved.
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A Cyclic Redundancy Checksum (CRC) anomaly counter normalization method comprising:
- computing, in a first transceiver, a CRC octet based on a transmitted bit stream;
- transmitting the CRC octet from the first transceiver to a second transceiver;
- computing, in the second transceiver, a local CRC octet based on a received bit stream;
- comparing the local CRC octet to a received CRC octet;
- identifying a CRC anomaly when the local CRC octet is not identical to the received CRC octet;
- and
- normalizing the CRC anomaly counter based on a value for a CRC computation period (PERp).
A Cyclic Redundancy Checksum (CRC) anomaly counter normalization system comprising:
- a CRC bits computation module in a first transceiver capable of computing a CRC octet based on a transmitted bit stream;
- the first transceiver capable of transmitting the CRC octet to a second transceiver;
- a CRC bits computation module in the second transceiver capable of computing a local CRC octet based on a received bit stream;
- a CRC bits comparison module capable of comparing the local CRC octet to a received CRC octet;
- a CRC error module capable of identifying a CRC anomaly when the local CRC octet is not identical to the received CRC octet;
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- a normalization module capable of normalizing a CRC anomaly counter based on a value for a CRC computation period (PERp).
A non-transitory computer readable information storage media having stored thereon instructions, that if executed by a processor, cause to be performed a method for Cyclic Redundancy Checksum (CRC) anomaly counter normalization comprising:
- computing, in a first transceiver, a CRC octet based on a transmitted bit stream;
- transmitting the CRC octet from the first transceiver to a second transceiver;
- computing, in the second transceiver, a local CRC octet based on a received bit stream;
- comparing the local CRC octet to a received CRC octet;
- identifying a CRC anomaly when the local CRC octet is not identical to the received CRC octet;
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- normalizing the CRC anomaly counter based on a value for a CRC computation period (PERp).
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.