US 12,120,766 B2
Operation apparatus and method for maintaining network connectivity of a network device based on self-related connection information obtained from monitoring maintenance messages
Ahamed Rafik Ajmeer, Eindhoven (NL); Sathya Phaneendra Reddy Gadi, Eindhoven (NL); and Manoj Ayyankotil Kulangara, Eindhoven (NL)
Assigned to SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V., Eindhoven (NL)
Appl. No. 17/768,394
Filed by SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V., Eindhoven (NL)
PCT Filed Oct. 16, 2020, PCT No. PCT/EP2020/079145
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Apr. 12, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/074355, PCT Pub. Date Apr. 22, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 201941041974 (IN), filed on Oct. 17, 2019; and application No. 19213254 (EP), filed on Dec. 3, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2023/0254927 A1, Aug. 10, 2023
Int. Cl. H04W 24/00 (2009.01); H04W 24/04 (2009.01); H04W 40/24 (2009.01); H04W 76/19 (2018.01)
CPC H04W 76/19 (2018.02) [H04W 24/04 (2013.01); H04W 40/246 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. Operation apparatus for operating a network device adapted to being part of a network comprising a plurality of network devices, wherein the operation apparatus comprises:
a network information provider for providing network information, wherein the network information refers to information with respect to maintenance messages sent and/or received by the network device and/or a neighboring network device of the network device to maintain the network, wherein the neighboring network device is part of the same network as the network device,
a determinator for determining self-related connection information from the network information, wherein the self-related connection information refers to information on the connection of the network device itself with the network,
a controller for controlling the network device based on the self-related connection information,
wherein the network information comprises neighborhood information indicative of a network neighborhood of a neighboring network device being part of the network neighborhood of the network device, and wherein the determinator is adapted to determine self-related connection information from the neighborhood information,
wherein the determinator is adapted to determine from the neighborhood information an indication whether the network device is known by the neighboring network device to belong to the neighborhood of the neighboring network device as self-related connection information,
wherein the controller is adapted to control the network device to take measures for reconnecting to the network if the self-related connection information indicates that the connection of the network device to the network is failing, and
wherein the self-related connection information determined from the network information comprises information indicative of a timing of maintenance messages sent by the network device itself.