Method and System for Generating Geographic Visual Displays of Status and Configuration Including Assigned Capacity of Hybrid-Fiber Coax Network Elements
First Claim
1. A system comprising:
- a hybrid fiber coax (HFC) network having network elements operable for communicating telephony, data, and video signals with customer-premises equipment of subscribers;
an HFC network manager operable for monitoring status and the configuration including the assigned capacity of the network elements and for generating alarm data indicative of improper status or configuration of the network elements;
a service, design, and inventory (SDI) database operable with the HFC network manager for storing data indicative of the status and the configuration of the network elements and for storing data indicative of physical and logical connections between the network elements and the customer-premises equipment; and
a fault manager having an alarm visualization tool operable with the HFC network manager and the database for generating visual displays of the status and configuration including the assigned capacity of the network elements overlaid with the alarm data and overlaid with the physical and logical connections between the network elements and the customer-premises equipment based on the stored data.
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Abstract
A system includes a hybrid fiber coax (HFC) network having network elements operable for communicating telephony, data, and video signals with customer-premises equipment (CPE) of subscribers. The system includes a manager for monitoring status and the configuration including the assigned capacity of the network elements and for generating alarm data indicative of improper status or configuration of the network elements. The system includes a database for storing data indicative of the status and the configuration of the network elements and for storing data indicative of physical and logical connections between the network elements and the CPE. The system includes an alarm visualization tool operable with the manager and the database for generating visual displays of the status and configuration including the assigned capacity of the network elements overlaid with the alarm data and the stored data indicative of the physical and logical connections between the network elements and the CPE.
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20 Claims
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1. A system comprising:
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a hybrid fiber coax (HFC) network having network elements operable for communicating telephony, data, and video signals with customer-premises equipment of subscribers; an HFC network manager operable for monitoring status and the configuration including the assigned capacity of the network elements and for generating alarm data indicative of improper status or configuration of the network elements; a service, design, and inventory (SDI) database operable with the HFC network manager for storing data indicative of the status and the configuration of the network elements and for storing data indicative of physical and logical connections between the network elements and the customer-premises equipment; and a fault manager having an alarm visualization tool operable with the HFC network manager and the database for generating visual displays of the status and configuration including the assigned capacity of the network elements overlaid with the alarm data and overlaid with the physical and logical connections between the network elements and the customer-premises equipment based on the stored data. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. A system comprising:
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a hybrid fiber coax (HFC) network having network elements operable for communicating telephony, data, and video signals with customer-premises equipment of subscribers; an HFC network manager operable for monitoring status of the network elements and the customer-premises equipment of subscribers, for monitoring the configuration including the assigned capacity of the network elements and the customer-premises equipment, and for generating alarm data indicative of improper status or configuration of the network elements and the customer-premises equipment; a service, design, and inventory (SDI) database operable with the HFC network manager for storing data indicative of the status and the configuration of the network elements and the customer-premises equipment and for storing data indicative of physical and logical connections between the network elements and the customer-premises equipment; and a fault manager having an alarm visualization tool operable with the HFC network manager and the database for generating visual displays of the status and configuration including the assigned capacity of the network elements and the customer-premises equipment overlaid with the alarm data and overlaid with the physical and logical connections between the network elements and the customer-premises equipment based on the stored data. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17)
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18. A method for a hybrid fiber coax (HFC) network provided with network elements operable for communicating telephony, data, and video signals with customer-premises equipment of subscribers, the method comprising:
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monitoring status of the network elements; monitoring the configuration including the assigned capacity of the network elements; generating alarm data indicative of improper status or configuration of the network elements; storing data indicative of the status and the configuration of the network elements; storing data indicative of physical and logical connections between the network elements and the customer-premises equipment; and generating visual displays of the status and configuration including the assigned capacity of the network elements overlaid with the alarm data and overlaid with the physical and logical connections between the network elements and the customer-premises equipment based on the stored data. - View Dependent Claims (19, 20)
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