Method and apparatus for administering multiple provisionable objects
First Claim
1. In a telecommunications device having elements of different types and a network interface for use in communicating with a client device, a method for interacting with said client device for performance of management activities on said elements of said telecommunications device, said method, comprising the steps of:
- sending from said telecommunications device content for rendering on said client device to show a visual representation of a portion of said telecommunications device that depicts said elements of different types, wherein a user of said client device may select multiple elements of a same type and select management activities to be performed on the selected elements; and
receiving at said network interface a communication identifying the elements that have been selected by the user and the management activities that have been selected by the user for performance in a single session.
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Abstract
An apparatus and method are provided that allows a party to submit multiple requests for management activities to a telecommunications device in a single submission. The telecommunications device includes a network interface for communicating with the party to allow the party to submit the multiple requests in a single submission. The network interface downloads content for the party to select and downloads a program that aggregates the selections of the party into a suitable data structure. The data structure holds multiple requests for management activities in the telecommunications device and is transmitted to the telecommunications device in a single submission.
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34 Claims
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1. In a telecommunications device having elements of different types and a network interface for use in communicating with a client device, a method for interacting with said client device for performance of management activities on said elements of said telecommunications device, said method, comprising the steps of:
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sending from said telecommunications device content for rendering on said client device to show a visual representation of a portion of said telecommunications device that depicts said elements of different types, wherein a user of said client device may select multiple elements of a same type and select management activities to be performed on the selected elements; and
receiving at said network interface a communication identifying the elements that have been selected by the user and the management activities that have been selected by the user for performance in a single session. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 29, 30, 31)
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12. A telecommunications device comprising:
an embedded network interface for communicating with at least one client device over a network, said embedded network interface sending content, including a program for operation on the at least one client device, said content including visual information for rendering on said client device a plurality of visual representations that depict various elements of said telecommunications device so that a user of said client device may select elements of a like type and request performance of management activities on the selected elements, said program aggregating the selected elements and the requested performance of management activities thereon into a communication that identifies the selected elements and the requested management activities to said embedded network interface.
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18. In a telecommunications network having a switch with an embedded web server and a client device with a browser, a method performed by said switch comprising the steps of:
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sending multiple web pages from the embedded web server to the browser to allow a user of the client device to submit multiple requests for performance of multiple management operations in said switch in a single submission wherein, at least one of the multiple web pages contains information allowing the browser to render a visualization of a portion of the switch;
downloading a program to the browser for combining the multiple requests for the performance of the multiple management operations into a single data structure for submission to the server; and
at the server, processing the single data structure to identify the multiple requests for the performance of the multiple management operations submitted by the user in the single submission.
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28. A device readable medium holding executable instructions for a telecommunications device having elements of different types, a network interface for use in communicating with a client device, said device readable medium allowing said telecommunications device to interact with said client device for performance of management activities on said elements of said telecommunications device by performing the steps of:
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sending from said telecommunications device content for rendering on said client device to show a visual representation of a portion of said telecommunications device that depicts said elements of different types, wherein a user of said client device may select multiple elements of a same type and select management activities to be performed on the selected elements; and
receiving at said network interface a communication identifying the elements that have been selected by the user and the management activities that have been selected by the user for performance in a single session.
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32. A method for allowing a client having a browser to manage operation of a telecommunications device having elements of different types including an embedded web server, the method comprising the steps of:
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providing the telecommunications device;
connecting the telecommunications device to the client using a communication medium capable of supporting propagation of communications between the telecommunications device and the client device;
sending a plurality of web pages from the embedded web server for rendering on the browser of the client device to show a visual representation of a portion of said telecommunications device that depicts said elements of different types, wherein a user of said browser may select multiple elements of a same type and select management activities to be performed on the selected elements;
sending a program that runs on said browser for collecting said selected multiple elements of the same type and collecting the selected management activities to be performed on the selected elements into a single communication; and
processing at the embedded server, the single communication for the performance of the management operations in the telecommunications device. - View Dependent Claims (33, 34)
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