Device management system

• US 20060015626A1
• Filed: 10/15/2004
• Published: 01/19/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 07/01/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy (Nokia Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Nokia Corporation
• Inventors: Kaappa, Eero, Sahinoja, Mikko, Hallamaa, Mika
• Granted Patent: US 8,392,545 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/229
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/04 specially adapted for terminals or networks with limited capabilities; specially adapted for terminal portability
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/125 involving control of end-device applications over a network

Abstract

The invention relates to a method for arranging service management in a service management system, the method comprising: defining one or more device management commands on the basis of predetermined mapping instructions and a service management command, transmitting the device management commands to a managed device, specifying in the managed device one or more service management commands on the basis of the received device management commands, and carrying out the defined one or more device management commands.

Claims

1. A data processing device for a service management system comprising:

service management means for defining a service management command for one or more managed devices,

means for defining one or more device management commands on the basis of predetermined mapping instructions and the service management command, and

means for transmitting the one or more device management commands to a managed device.

2. The data processing device according to claim 1, wherein a service management manager configured to define the service management command is further configured to define the device management commands.

3. The data processing device according to claim 1, wherein the data processing device comprises a device management manager configured to transmit the one or more device management commands to the managed device.

4. The data processing device according to claim 3, wherein the device management manager is configured to define the one or more device management commands.

5. The data processing device according to claim 1, wherein the service management command comprises a plurality of subtasks and is mapped into a plurality of device management commands.

6. The data processing device according to claim 1, wherein the data processing device is configured to define the service management command for managing a service management level deployment component representing a group of manageable items controlling a service.

7. The data processing device according to claim 6, wherein the data processing device is configured to define the service management command for arranging an inventory of the deployment components, and

the data processing device is configured to address the device management command to a specific storage location in a management structure of the managed device for inventory of the deployment components.

8. A data processing device for a service management system comprising:

means for storing a management structure comprising or representing managed items, a service management agent for monitoring and/or performing a service management level command,

means for specifying one or more service management commands on the basis of one or more received device management commands.

9. The data processing device according to claim 8, wherein the data processing device comprises a device management agent for executing device management commands from a device management manager for management objects in or represented by the management structure, wherein the device management agent is configured to carry out the one or more received device management commands.

10. The data processing device according to claim 9, wherein the service management agent is configured to carry out the one or more service management commands on the basis of a modification in the management structure due to execution of the one or more device management commands.

11. The data processing device according to claim 9, wherein the device management agent is configured to notify the service management agent on the basis of the one or more received device management commands.

12. The data processing device according to claim 11, wherein the service management agent is configured to carry out the one or more service management commands on the basis of a notification from the device management agent.

13. The data processing device according to claim 8, wherein the service management agent is configured to modify the management structure in accordance with the specified one or more service management commands.

14. The data processing device according to claim 8, wherein the management structure comprises or represents a service management level deployment component to which the one or more service management commands are addressed.

15. The data processing device according to claim 14, wherein in the management structure, the deployment component is associated with a state describing the current status of the deployment component.

16. The data processing device according to claim 15, wherein the management structure comprises a specific storage location for each possible state.

17. The data processing device according to claim 14, wherein the management structure comprises a specific storage location for arranging inventory of the deployment components.

18. The data processing device according to claim 8, wherein the management structure is an OMA DM management tree and the device management commands are OMA DM management commands.

19. A method for arranging service management in a service management system, the method comprising:

defining one or more device management commands on the basis of predetermined mapping instructions and a service management command,

transmitting the one or more device management commands to a managed device,

specifying in the managed device one or more service management commands on the basis of the one or more received device management commands, and

carrying out the defined one or more service management commands in the managed device.

20. A computer program downloadable into a memory of a data processing device for a service management system, the computer program comprising a computer program code which, when executed in a processor of the data processing device, causes the data processing device to:

define one or more device management commands on the basis of predetermined mapping instructions and a service management command.

21. A data storage medium for storing a computer program downloadable into a memory of a data processing device for a service management system, the computer program comprising a computer program code which, when executed in a processor of the data processing device, causes the data processing device to:

define one or more device management commands on the basis of predetermined mapping instructions and a service management command.

22. A computer program downloadable into a memory of a data processing device for a service management system, the computer program comprising a computer program code which, when executed in a processor of the data processing device, causes the data processing device to:

specify one or more service management commands on the basis of one or more received device management commands.

23. A data storage medium for storing a computer program downloadable into a memory of a data processing device for a service management system, the computer program comprising a computer program code which, when executed in a processor of the data processing device, causes the data processing device to:

specify one or more service management commands on the basis of one or more received device management commands.