Deploying rules by policy management apparatus as a function of information concerning network equipment

• US 20030149591A1
• Filed: 02/06/2003
• Published: 08/07/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 02/07/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Alcatel SA (Nokia Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Alcatel SA (Nokia Corporation)
• Inventors: Koops, Mark
• Application Number:
  US10/359,141
• Publication Number:
  US 20030149591A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/00 Arrangements for maintenance, administration or management of data switching networks, e.g. of packet switching networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0893 Assignment of logical groups to network elements
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0894 Policy-based network configuration management

Abstract

Policy management apparatus for deploying rules over a set of elements in a data network, in particular a telecommunications network, the rules enabling services to be implemented, wherein the apparatus has means giving it access to a database containing information about the set of network elements, and wherein deployment is performed as a function of said information.

Claims

1. / Policy management apparatus for deploying rules over a set of elements in a data network, in particular a telecommunications network, said rules enabling services to be implemented, wherein the apparatus has means giving it access to a database containing information about said set of network elements, about said services, and about said rules, these various kinds of information being matched with one another, and wherein deployment is performed as a function of said information.

2. / Policy management apparatus according to claim 1, further including means for storing said information in said database on the basis of data contained in registration messages received from network elements.

3. / Policy management apparatus according to claim 2, in which said registration messages are forwarded via a policy decision point.

4. / Policy management apparatus according to claim 1, in which matching is performed by means of a UML language diagram.