System, method and device for communication service provisioning

• US 20040215481A1
• Filed: 04/06/2004
• Published: 10/28/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 07/09/1999
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Koji Nishi
• Original Assignee: Koji Nishi
• Inventors: Nishi, Koji
• Application Number:
  US10/817,829
• Publication Number:
  US 20040215481A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/08 Configuration management of networks or network elements address allocation H04L61/50
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0893 Assignment of logical groups to network elements
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0894 Policy-based network configuration management
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/12 Discovery or management of network topologies
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/5054 Automatic deployment of services triggered by the service manager, e.g. service implementation by automatic configuration of network components

Abstract

A communication service provision system method and device to provide a communication service which provision various communication devices to realize communication service ordered by a customer and reduce the load of an operator by utilizing a policy server. In the invention, the following are performed. A customer care server executes order processing suitable for communication service ordered by a customer. An operational flow manager activates a design server based upon contents stored in an operational flow storage when the order processing is finished and instructs the design server to execute route computing. When the operation is finished, a policy server sets configuration data to respective communication devices composing a route suitable for the order of the customer. Network design can be also performed by inputting route data and policy data from the policy server without using the design server.

Claims

1-3. -3. (Canceled)

4. A communication service provision system, comprising:

an operational flow storage part that stores operational flow composed of a series of operations that former operation in time is order processing for processing an order of a customer and the last operation is setting for setting configuration data to respective communication devices composing a network for realizing the order of the customer out of the respective operations as a procedure every unit for providing communication service to the customer as an end user;

an corresponding server storage part that stores the name of each server that executes respective operations stored in the operational flow storage part;

an operation termination detecting part for detecting the termination of respective operations stored in said operational flow storage part; and

an operations switching part for executing the next operation by reading operation to be executed next stored in said operational flow storage part and activating a server in charge of the operation every time the operation termination detecting part detects the termination of one operation.

5. A communication service provision system according to claim 4, wherein:

a policy server'"'"'s information is stored as a server for provisioning in said corresponding server storage part.

6. A communication service provision system according to claim 4, wherein:

a design server'"'"'s information is stored as a server for route computing to determine a possible path in a network according to an order of a customer as a server in charge of operation for network design in said corresponding server storage part.

7. A communication service provision system according to claim 4, wherein:

a customer care server'"'"'s information is stored as a is stored as a server in charge of operation for order processing for processing an order of a customer in said corresponding server storage part.

8. A communication service provision system according to claim 5, wherein:

route data/policy data storage part that stores plural sets of route data prepared for selecting a route suitable for a customer and policy data used for determining a policy for the management of a network is provided; and

said policy server performs network design according to the contents of an order of a customer as operation before setting.

9. A communication service provision system according to claim 8, wherein:

said policy server selects communication devices composing a route in said network design.

10. A communication service provision system according to claim 9, wherein:

said policy server selects communication devices composing a route in said network design; and

said policy server generates configuration data for setting to these communication devices.

11. A communication service provision system according to claim 5, wherein:

said policy server checks whether these communication devices can be operated or not before setting configuration data to the communication devices.

12. A communication service provision system according to claim 4, wherein:

data which respective servers stored in said corresponding server storage part can share is stored in storage part that can be accessed by the servers.

13. A communication service provision system according to claim 4, comprising:

an operation definition part for defining respective operations stored according to time series in said operational flow storage part; and

an operation registration part for registering operation defined by the operation definition part according to time series.

14. A communication service provision system according to claim 4, wherein:

said operations switching part is provided with scheduling part for setting time when operation to be executed next is executed.

15. A communication service provision system according to claim 4, wherein the operation flow data including operations'"'"' information which compose said operation flow, the order of order processing.

16. A communication service provision system according to claim 4, is used to configure a virtual private network.

20. A method for communication service provision system according to claim 16, comprising the steps of:

selecting for selecting communication devices composing a route in said network design;

generating for generating configuration data for setting to these communication devices; and

checking for checking whether these communication devices can be operated or not before setting configuration data to the communication devices.

17. (Canceled)

18. A method for communication service provision system comprising the steps of:

an operational flow storing for storing operational flow composed of a series of operations that former operation in time is order processing for processing an order of a customer and the last operation is setting for setting configuration data to respective communication devices composing a network for realizing the order of the customer out of the respective operations as a procedure every unit for providing communication service to the customer as an end user;

an corresponding server storing for storing the name of each server that executes respective operations stored in the operational flow storage part;

an operation termination detecting for detecting the termination of respective operations stored in said operational flow storage part; and

an operations switching for executing the next operation by reading operation to be executed next stored in said operational flow storage part and activating a server in charge of the operation every time the operation termination detecting part detects the termination of one operation.

21. A method for communication service provision system according to claim 18, comprising the steps of:

operation definition for defining respective operations stored according to time series;

operation registration for registering operation defined by the operation definition part according to time series; and

operations switching with scheduling part for setting time when operation to be executed next is executed.

22. A method for communication service provision system according to claim 21, is used to configure a virtual private network.

19. (Canceled)

23. (Canceled)

24. (Canceled)