Bulk job provisioning system

• US 10,291,667 B2
• Filed: 02/01/2016
• Issued: 05/14/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 02/01/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Level 3 Communications LLC (Lumen Technologies, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Level 3 Communications LLC (Lumen Technologies, Inc.)
• Inventors: Bhattacharjee, Raja, Dudley, Kenneth W., Das, Richard J.
• Primary Examiner(s): Abu Roumi, Mahran Y
• Application Number:
  US15/012,293
• Publication Number:
  US 20170223068A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,198 Days
• Field of Search: 709204
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0806 for initial configuration or provisioning, e.g. plug-and-play
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/403 Arrangements for multi-party communication, e.g. for conferences data switching systems for conference H04L12/18; arrangements for connecting several subscribers to a common circuit, i.e. affording conference facilities H04M3/56; television conferencing systems H04N7/15
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/34 involving the movement of software or configuration parameters network booting or remote initial program loading [RIPL] G06F9/4416

Abstract

A method and system for receiving and executing a bulk provisioning job for a collaboration conferencing system is disclosed. In particular, the system receives a bulk provisioning request from a user of the system that includes a provisioning type and information file. The system utilizes the information file to correlate to additional subscriber data maintained in a database. With the information file, provisioning type, and additional subscriber data, the bulk provisioning system automatically creates one or more requests to the collaboration conferencing system to execute the bulk provisioning request. Further, the collaboration conferencing system may return a status and/or error in the bulk provisioning request to the bulk provisioning system.

Claims

1. A method for provisioning a network, the method comprising:

receiving a file comprising subscriber information for multiple subscribers for a collaboration conferencing system and an indication of a provisioning job type;

correlating additional subscriber information for the multiple subscribers from a database with the subscriber information of the received file based on the provisioning job type;

generating a bulk job data file for the multiple subscribers, wherein the bulk job data file comprises the subscriber information of the received file and the correlated additional subscriber information;

transmitting the bulk job data file to a collaboration conferencing provisioning system to cause the collaboration conferencing provisioning system to provision network resources for the multiple subscribers;

receiving an acknowledgment of a completed provisioning of the collaboration conferencing system from the collaboration conferencing provisioning system;

displaying a user interface on a display of a computing system and wherein the file is received through the user interface at the computing system;

displaying a status of the provisioning of the collaboration conferencing system form the collaboration conferencing provisioning system;

receiving an error message from the collaboration conferencing provisioning system indicating an error in the provisioning of the collaboration conferencing system; and

receiving updated subscriber information through the user interface in response to the error message and transmitting the updated subscriber information to the collaboration conferencing provisioning system.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the displayed status comprises the acknowledgment of the completed provisioning of the collaboration conferencing system.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein the displayed status comprises the error message from the collaboration conferencing provisioning system and at least one entry of subscriber information associated with the error message.

4. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

displaying a history of provisioning jobs from the collaboration conferencing provisioning system.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein the received file comprises at least one identifier of a subscriber to the collaboration conferencing system and the correlated additional subscriber information comprises a customer identifier and a subscriber password.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein the indication of a provisioning job type comprises at least an identification of the collaboration conferencing system.

7. A system for provisioning a collaboration conference system on a telecommunications network, the system comprising:

a database storing subscriber information for at least for multiple subscribers of a collaboration conference feature hosted by the telecommunications network; and

a bulk provisioning job system comprising;

a processing device; and

a computer-readable medium connected to the processing device configured to store information and instructions that, when executed by the processing device, performs the operations of;

receiving a file comprising subscriber information for the multiple subscribers for a collaboration conferencing system and an indication of a provisioning job type;

correlating additional subscriber information for the multiple subscribers from the database with the subscriber information of the received file based on the provisioning job type;

generating a bulk job data file for the multiple subscribers, wherein the bulk job data file comprises the subscriber information of the received file and the correlated additional subscriber information;

transmitting the bulk job data file to a collaboration conferencing provisioning system to cause the collaboration conferencing provisioning system to provision network resources for the multiple subscribers;

receiving an acknowledgment of a completed provisioning of the collaboration conferencing system from the collaboration conferencing provisioning system;

causing a display device to display a user interface in communication with the bulk job provisioning system and wherein the file is received through the user interface at the display device;

causing the display device to display a status of the provisioning of the collaboration conferencing system form the collaboration conferencing provisioning system;

receive an error message from the collaboration conferencing provisioning system indicating an error in the provisioning of the collaboration conferencing system; and

receive updated subscriber information through the user interface in response to the error message and transmitting the updated subscriber information to the collaboration conferencing provisioning system.

8. The system of claim 7 wherein the displayed status comprises the acknowledgment of the completed provisioning of the collaboration conferencing system.

9. The system of claim 7 wherein the displayed status comprises the error message from the collaboration conferencing provisioning system and at least one entry of subscriber information associated with the error message.

10. The system of claim 7 wherein the instructions further cause the bulk provisioning job system to:

display a history of provisioning jobs from the collaboration conferencing provisioning system on the display device.

11. The system of claim 7 wherein the received file comprises at least one identifier of a subscriber to the collaboration conferencing system and the correlated additional subscriber information comprises a customer identifier and a subscriber password.

12. The system of claim 7 wherein the indication of a provisioning job type comprises at least an identification of the collaboration conferencing system.