Connection management system for managing telecommunication networks

• US 20020107963A1
• Filed: 02/04/2002
• Published: 08/08/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 06/05/2000
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Alcatel SA (Nokia Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Alcatel SA (Nokia Corporation)
• Inventors: Gaudillat, Herve
• Application Number:
  US10/048,626
• Publication Number:
  US 20020107963A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/225
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2012/5626 Network management, e.g. Intelligent nets
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2012/5632 Bandwidth allocation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0233 Object-oriented techniques, for representation of network management data, e.g. common object request broker architecture [CORBA]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/12 Discovery or management of network topologies
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/22 comprising specially adapted graphical user interfaces [GUI]

Abstract

The invention relates to a network element connection management system. The system includes:

a subsystem (A) for managing the availability and use of the capacities of resources which offers services for verifying the availability of resources and for reserving said resources, and

a topology server application (S) which provides information on the network elements (termination points and their characteristics),

said subsystem (A) and said application (S) co-operating via a communication software bus (B), said subsystem for managing the availability and use of resources thus being adapted to offer its services to application programs via said communication bus (B), for example connection path and/or routing management.

Claims

1. A network element connection management system, characterized in that it includes:

a subsystem (A) for managing the availability and use of resources which offers services for verifying the availability of resources and for reserving said resources, and

a topology server application (S) which provides information on the network elements,

said subsystem (A) and said application (S) co-operating via a communication software bus (B), said subsystem for managing the availability and use of resources thus being adapted to offer its services to application programs via said communication bus (B).

2. A connection management system according to claim 1, wherein the architecture of the subsystem (A) is an object-oriented architecture.

3. A connection management system according to claim 1 or claim 2, wherein the subsystem (A) for managing the availability and use of resources includes a server module (GS) for managing the availability and use of resources and a client module (GC) of said server module.

4. A connection management system according to claim 3, wherein the management server module (GS) includes a nucleus (NGS) defining all generic behaviors and an extension (EGS) for configuring and programming behaviors specific to a given technology.

5. A connection management system according to claim 3, wherein the client module (GC) includes a nucleus (NGUI) defining all the generic behaviors and an extension (EGUI) for configuring and programming behaviors specific to a given technology.

6. A connection management system according to claim 5, wherein the client module (GC) is a graphical user interface (GUI).