Managing a wireless platform

• US 20040128586A1
• Filed: 12/27/2002
• Published: 07/01/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 12/27/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Original Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Inventors: Bahr, Casey, Reilly, Patrick L.
• Granted Patent: US 7,266,729 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 714/43
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/0709 in a distributed system consisting of a plurality of standalone computer nodes, e.g. clusters, client-server systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/0742 in a data processing system embedded in a mobile device, e.g. mobile phones, handheld devices
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/0793 Remedial or corrective actions recovery from an exception in an instruction pipeline G06F9/3861; by retry G06F11/1402; for recovering from a failure of a protocol instance or entity H04L69/40
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3476 Data logging G06F11/14, G06F11/2205 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/14 Charging , metering or billing arrangements for data wireline or wireless communications
• 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 41/0631 using root cause analysis; using analysis of correlation between notifications, alarms or events based on decision criteria, e.g. hierarchy, tree or time analysis
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0677 Localisation of faults
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0681 Configuration of triggering conditions
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0806 for initial configuration or provisioning, e.g. plug-and-play
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/5012 determining service availability, e.g. which services are available at a certain point in time
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/125 involving control of end-device applications over a network
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/18 Negotiating wireless communication parameters

Abstract

In one embodiment of the present invention, a wireless platform may be managed by an operations, administration, and maintenance system which may include a configuration manager, a performance manager, an accounting manager, a fault manager, an event manager, and a notification manager.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

creating a managed object corresponding to a resource of a wireless device;

initializing the managed object with configuration data corresponding to an operational state of the resource;

storing the configuration data in a storage device; and

querying the configuration data regarding the operational state.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising modifying an attribute of the managed object.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising deleting the managed object.

4. A system comprising:

a configuration manager to define and maintain configuration data regarding at least one resource of a wireless network device; and

a fault manager to detect and report a fault occurring at the at least one resource of the wireless network device.

5. The system of claim 4, further comprising a performance manager to measure performance of the at least one resource of the wireless network device.

6. The system of claim 4, further comprising an accounting manager to maintain accounting information related to the wireless network device.

7. The system of claim 4, further comprising a database within the wireless network device to store the configuration data.

8. The system of claim 4, wherein the configuration manager and the fault manager reside on the wireless network device.

9. A method comprising:

receiving a notification of an alarm condition occurring in a fault management component of a wireless network device;

analyzing the alarm condition to isolate a fault to a portion of the fault management component; and

repairing the fault in the portion of the fault management component.

10. The method of claim 9, further comprising launching a minimal monitor code portion upon receipt of the notification.

11. The method of claim 10, further comprising using the minimal monitor code portion to analyze the alarm condition and to repair the fault.

12. The method of claim 9, further comprising verifying that the fault has been repaired.

13. The method of claim 12, further comprising gracefully degrading at least one portion of the wireless network device if the fault is not repaired.

14. The method of claim 9, further comprising generating a service incident record corresponding to the fault.

15. The method of claim 14, further comprising temporarily storing the service incident record on the wireless network device when not connected to a network.

16. The method of claim 14, further comprising transmitting the service incident record to a remote network support site.

17. A method comprising:

logging an alarm record in response to an alarm condition of a resource of a wireless network device;

storing the alarm record in a storage device within the wireless network device; and

providing a notification of the alarm record to at least one subscriber.

18. The method of claim 17, further comprising determining whether to forward the alarm record to the at least one subscriber according to a logging policy.

19. The method of claim 17, further comprising forwarding the alarm record to a remote subscriber.

20. The method of claim 17, further comprising storing the alarm record in a circular buffer within the wireless network device.

21. The method of claim 18, wherein the logging policy comprises a filtering policy.

22. The method of claim 21, wherein the filtering policy comprises at least one global constraint and at least one local constraint.

23. The method of claim 22, wherein the at least one global constraint may override the at least one local constraint.

24. A system comprising:

at least one storage device to store code to define and maintain configuration data regarding at least one resource of a wireless network device; and

to detect and report a fault occurring at the at least one resource of the wireless network device;

a processor coupled to the at least one storage device to execute the code; and

a dipole antenna coupled to the processor.

25. The system of claim 24, further comprising code to measure performance of the at least one resource of the wireless network device.

26. The system of claim 24, further comprising code to maintain accounting information related to the wireless network device.

27. An article comprising a machine-readable storage medium containing instructions that if executed enable a system to:

create a managed object corresponding to a resource of a wireless device;

initialize the managed object with configuration data corresponding to an operational state of the resource;

store the configuration data in a storage device; and

query the configuration data regarding the operational state.

28. The article of claim 27, further comprising instructions that if executed enable the system to modify an attribute of the managed object.

29. The article of claim 27, further comprising instructions that if executed enable the system to delete the managed object.