Unique respository server in an operations and maintenance center for a telecommunications system

• US 20030212685A1
• Filed: 04/02/2003
• Published: 11/13/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 04/03/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: RPX Corporation
• Original Assignee: Evolium SAS (Nokia Corporation)
• Inventors: Barre, Patrick, Rakotoarivelo, Jarisoa, Beucher, Yannick
• Granted Patent: US 7,035,392 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/10
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/042 comprising distributed management centres cooperatively managing the network
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 3/0062 Provisions for network management

Abstract

The invention relates to an operations and maintenance center for a telecommunications system comprising:

server means 5 for storing of first information being indicative of network elements of the telecommunications system and of second information being indicative of assignments of network elements and resource managers 2,

information retrieval means 12 for generating third information being indicative of network elements being assigned to one of the resource managers.

Claims

1. Operations and maintenance center for a telecommunications system comprising:

server means for storing of first information being indicative of network elements of the telecommunications system and of second information being indicative of assignments of network elements and resource managers,

information retrieval means for generating third information being indicative of network elements being assigned to one of the resource managers.

2. The operations and maintenance center of claim 1, the server means comprising relational database means for storage of the first and second information.

3. The operations and maintenance center of claim 2, the data retrieval means being adapted to perform a query in the relational database means in order to generate the third information.

4. The operations and maintenance center of claim 1, the server means being a repository server of the telecommunications system.

5. The operations and maintenance center of claim 1 further comprising:

means for determining a number of network elements being assigned to each one of the resource managers,

means for determining one of the resource managers having a minimal number of assigned network elements,

means for assigning an additional network element to the one of the resource managers having the minimal number of network elements,

means for storing the assignment of the additional network element to the one of the resource managers as second information.

6. A method for operations and maintenance of a telecommunications system, the method comprising the steps of:

storing of first information being indicative of network elements of the telecommunications system,

storing of second information being indicative of assignments of network elements and resource managers,

generating of third information being indicative of network elements being assigned to one of the resource managers.

7. The method of claim 6 whereby the first and the second information is stored in a relational database.

8. The method of claim 6 further comprising the steps of:

inputting of a declaration of an additional network element,

determining a number of network elements being assigned to different resource managers,

determining one of the resource managers having a minimal number of network elements,

assigning the additional network element to the one of the resource managers having the minimal number of assigned network elements,

storing of the assignment of the additional network element and the one of the resource managers as second information.

9. The method of claim 6 further comprising the steps of:

starting of one of the resource managers,

requesting third information for the one of the resource managers,

generating the requested third information by means of information retrieval,

providing the requested third information to the one of the resource managers.

10. A computer program product for an operations and maintenance center of a telecommunications system, the computer program product comprising program means for storing of first information being indicative of network elements of the telecommunications system and for storing of second information being indicative of assignments of network elements and resource managers and further comprising data retrieval means for generating third information being indicative of network elements being assigned to one of the resource manager processes.