Identification of delivery objects

• US 20050055599A1
• Filed: 01/15/2002
• Published: 03/10/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 01/15/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Nextlimit AB
• Original Assignee: Nextlimit AB
• Inventors: Bravo, Oscar, Espinosa, Marid, Hagstrom, Bengt, Helgesson-Hanser, Kent
• Application Number:
  US10/501,410
• Publication Number:
  US 20050055599A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 714/4
• 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 41/0233 Object-oriented techniques, for representation of network management data, e.g. common object request broker architecture [CORBA]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/08 Protocols for interworking; Protocol conversion
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/40 Network security protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/4228 in networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2213/13109 Initializing, personal profile
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2213/13204 Protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2213/13349 Network management
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 3/0062 Provisions for network management

Abstract

The present invention relates to a system and method for enabling, in a system comprising a plurality of service providers and a plurality of network providers, for a network provider to manage information for supplying network services in a network. The invention is based on the idea that a control system receives an order from a service provider. The control system places the order at a network provider and registers information related to said order in registers. The registers can be located within, or outside, the telecommunication network. The product that corresponds to the order from the service provider is delivered, regardless of the network technology used by the network provider. This is possible due to the fact that the communication protocol employed by the service provider is adapted to the network technology used in the telecommunication network, based on predetermined registered network technology information.

Claims

1. A control system in a system comprising a plurality of service providers and a plurality of network providers, which control system enables any service provider to order a product at any network provider and enables the network provider to manage information for delivering said product in a telecommunication network to the service provider, wherein the control system comprises:

means arranged to register a product type order, from a service provider, at a network provider;

means arranged to identify the network technology of the network provider for the ordered product type, based on predetermined registered network technology information;

means arranged to create and register an order based on said product type order from the service provider;

means arranged to translate the communication protocols that the service provider is using to the communication protocols of the network technology of the network provider, which translation is based on said predetermined registered network technology information; and

means arranged to deliver said product, in accordance with the registered order, to the service provider.

2. The control system according to claim 1, wherein the control system is arranged to coordinate a plurality of network technologies simultaneously, based on the predetermined registered network information, by translating the protocol of the service provider to the protocol of each and every one of these different network technologies.

3. The control system according to claim 1, wherein the control system is arranged to register and manage data associated with every product during the lifetime of the product.

4. The control system according to claim 1, wherein the control system is arranged to register data associated with installed network resources.

6. The control system according to claim 1, wherein the control system is arranged to adapt the communication protocols that the service provider is using, to network elements included in the network technology, which network elements can have different versions, different manufacturers, be of different types and have different technical solutions, based on said predetermined registered network technology information.

7. The control system according to claim 1, wherein the control system means arranged to deliver said product, in accordance with the registered order, to the service provider, is arranged to change or cancel the delivery of said product.

8. The control system according to claim 1, wherein the control system is arranged to define a given product by means of forming the product using at least one predetermined registered data set.

5. The control system according to claim 5, wherein the control system is arranged to monitor status about, book, connect and release said installed network resources, based on said registered data associated with the installed network resources.

9. A method in a system comprising a plurality of service providers and a plurality of network providers, which method enables any service provider to order a product at any network provider and enables the network provider to manage information for delivering said product in a telecommunication network to the service provider, wherein the method comprises the steps of:

registering a product type order from a service provider, at the network provider;

identifying the network technology of the network provider for the ordered product type, based on predetermined registered network technology information;

creating and registering an order based on said product type order from the service provider;

translating the communication protocols that the service provider is using, to the communication protocols of the network technology of the network provider, based on said predetermined registered network technology information; and

delivering said product, in accordance with the registered order, to the service provider.

10. The method according to claim 9, comprising the step of:

coordinating a plurality of network technologies simultaneously, based on the predetermined registered network information, by translating the protocol of the service provider to the protocol of each and every one of these different network technologies.

11. The method according to claim 9, comprising the step of:

registering and managing data associated with every product during the lifetime of the product.

12. The method according to claim 9, comprising the step of:

registering data associated with installed network resources.

13. The method according to claim 12, comprising the step of:

monitoring status about, book, connect and release said installed network resources, based on said registered data associated with the installed network resources.

14. The method according to claim 9, comprising the step of:

adapting the communication protocols that the service provider is using, to network elements included in the network technology, which network elements can have different versions, different manufacturers, be of different types and have different technical solutions, based on said predetermined registered network technology information.

15. The method according to claim 9, wherein the delivery of a product, in accordance with the registered order, to the service provider, can be changed or cancelled.

16. The method according to claim 9, wherein a given product is defined by means of forming the product using at least one predetermined registered data set.

17. A computer-readable medium storing computer-executable components for causing a unit to perform the steps recited in claim 9, when the computer-executable components are run on microprocessor included by the unit.