System and method for deploying new equipment and services in conjunction with a legacy provisioning system
First Claim
1. A method of provisioning subscriber services in a communication system having a plurality of subscribers, said method comprising:
- receipt by an operations support system of a provisioning instruction with respect to a particular service condition for a specific subscriber, said operations support system not containing within it instructions pertaining to certain equipment which could be utilized to provide said specific subscriber with said particular service;
said operations support system issuing an instruction to a network connected to said specific subscriber, said instruction being such that it is directed to a specific piece of equipment which provides said particular service condition to said specific subscriber, even though said specific piece of equipment is not present with respect to said specific subscriber; and
at a location within said network intercepting said issued instruction and translating said intercepted instruction in a manner to accomplish said particular service condition with equipment not identifiable by said operations support system.
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Abstract
In one embodiment, a new device or service can be treated as an abstraction, allowing a model to be created which mimics operation of the device or service, but which does not physically exist. A communication system may then take physical assets that are distributed around a network, such as circuit packs with ports on them, and virtually plug them into a shelf that does not physically exist. A legacy system preferably continues to function as it always has and the abstraction mediates between the legacy operations support systems, the virtual machine and the physical reality. This then allows for the continued use of existing operation systems to manage new network architectures with services different from those originally contemplated by the legacy operations support systems.
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15 Claims
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1. A method of provisioning subscriber services in a communication system having a plurality of subscribers, said method comprising:
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receipt by an operations support system of a provisioning instruction with respect to a particular service condition for a specific subscriber, said operations support system not containing within it instructions pertaining to certain equipment which could be utilized to provide said specific subscriber with said particular service;
said operations support system issuing an instruction to a network connected to said specific subscriber, said instruction being such that it is directed to a specific piece of equipment which provides said particular service condition to said specific subscriber, even though said specific piece of equipment is not present with respect to said specific subscriber; and
at a location within said network intercepting said issued instruction and translating said intercepted instruction in a manner to accomplish said particular service condition with equipment not identifiable by said operations support system. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3)
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4. A telephone network system in which an operations support system is operable for provisioning subscribers without said operations support system being programmed to recognize the network equipment used to provide communication service to certain of said subscriber, said system comprising:
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a system local to a group of said subscribers, said system operable for controlling traditional network services to said group of subscribers using non-traditional equipment, said non-traditional equipment not within the provisioning capabilities of said operations support system; and
said local system comprising means for performing at least one translation of a received service provisioning instruction from said operations support system directed to a specific subscriber within said group of subscribers controlled by said local system, said translation operable for converting a legacy provisioning instruction from said operations support system to one or more instructions appropriate for controlling the actual equipment servicing said specific subscribers. - View Dependent Claims (5, 6, 7)
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8. A system local to a group of subscribers in a network of subscribers where an operations support system is used to provision services to all of said subscribers using a set of provisioning instructions;
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means for translating a provisioning instruction from said operations support system, said provisioning instruction directed to a specific subscriber station within said group; and
means operative under control of said translation means for enabling with respect to said specific subscriber station the service corresponding to said provisioning instruction even through the equipment delivering said service is different from the equipment expected by said operations support system. - View Dependent Claims (9)
- said system comprising;
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10. A method of provisioning subscriber services in a communication system having a plurality of subscribers, and wherein, upon receipt by an operations support system of a provisioning instruction with respect to a particular service condition for a specific subscriber, the operations support system issues an instruction via a network connected to a said specific subscriber, said instruction being such that it is directed to a specific piece of equipment which would typically provide said particular service condition to said specific subscriber, said method comprising:
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at a location within said network intercepting said issued instruction, translating intercepted ones of said instructions so as to enable alternate equipment to provide said particular service condition to said specific subscriber; and
sending confirmation information to said operations support system as a set of responses conducted by said operations support system even though said responses are not initially in said understood form with said location. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13)
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14. A method operating locally to a group of subscribers in a network of subscribers where a central operations support system is used to provision services to subscribers spread over a large geographic area using a set of provisioning instructions common to all of said subscribers;
- said method comprising the steps of;
translating a provisioning instruction from said operations support system, said provisioning instruction directed to a specific subscriber station within said group; and
under control of said translated provisioning instructions, enabling with respect to said specific subscriber station the service corresponding to said provisioning instruction even through the equipment delivering said service is different from the equipment expected by said operations support system. - View Dependent Claims (15)
- said method comprising the steps of;
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