Steve Harry Alexander

US Patent:

61014230, Aug 8, 2000

Filed:

Jan 16, 1998

Appl. No.:

9/008070

Inventors:

Andrei Csipkes - Savage MD
Henry H. Yaffe - Baltimore MD
Steve B. Alexander - Millersville MD
Balakrishnan Sridhar - Elkridge MD
Dave A. Schwarten - Ellicott City MD
Yves Pradieu - Columbia MD

Assignee:

CIENA Corporation - Linthicum MD

International Classification:

G06F 1540

US Classification:

700117

Abstract:

The component parts for assembly of a device, such as the passive optical components of an optical amplifier, are automatically selected from among a supply of available component parts. Each component part has a performance parameter such as insertion loss associated therewith. Stored in a database memory are component part data for each component part of the supply of available component parts. The component part data are in a computer readable format and indicative of a type of each part and the performance parameter of each part. To obtain the selection of parts of the device for assembly, the component part data for a plurality of the available component parts is retrieved from the database, and the thus retrieved plurality of component part data are sorted according to at least the performance parameter of each retrieved component part data. At least one component part among the sorted component part data is selected based on a preset parameter. Then, at least one remaining component part among the sorted component part data is identified based at least on the performance parameter of the at least one component part and the performance parameter of the at least one remaining component part.