Joseph D Mclaughlin

US Patent:

20130179562, Jul 11, 2013

Filed:

Jan 11, 2012

Appl. No.:

13/348258

Inventors:

Jae Seung Lee - Frisco TX, US
Elaine Van Horn - Herndon VA, US
Doug L. Wekamp - Colorado Springs CO, US
Joseph Reiter - Richardson TX, US
Charles W. Brown - Plano TX, US
Firouzeh Rahimzadeh - Plano TX, US
Neil A. Rogers - Carrollton TX, US
Joseph A. McLaughlin - Colorado Springs CO, US

Assignee:

VERIZON PATENT AND LICESNING INC. - Basking Ridge NJ

International Classification:

G06F 15/16

US Classification:

709224

Abstract:

A method, performed by a computer device, may include scanning a network of digital cross connect devices to identify an open port and determining that the identified open port has been designated as unavailable in a provisioning database. The method may further include determining that the identified open port corresponds to a recoverable port and recovering the identified open port by designating the identified open port as available in the provisioning database, in response to determining that the identified open port corresponds to a recoverable port.