Modularly structured digital communications system for interconnecting terminal equipment and public networks, and having operation and reliability programs
First Claim
1. A modularly structured digital communications system for connecting terminal equipment to one another and to public networks comprising:
- at least one operating technology terminal equipment;
at least one alarm indicting terminal equipment indicating alarm reports acquired from system-security-oriented test procedures; and
a central system computer having a system data base and at least one multi-tasking operating system, said central computer system further comprisingmeans for administration of a line technology task structure having apparatus program modules for interfacing with types of terminal equipment for generating logical messages and operating technology messages from inputs received from at least one of the terminal equipment and operating technology terminal equipment, and for outputting setting data corresponding to the type of terminal equipment and acquired from at least one of logical messages, operating technology messages, and alarm messages, the setting data being provided for at least one of terminal equipment and operating technology terminal equipment and alarm indicating terminal equipment,means for administration of operating technology and switching technology coordination task structure having an operations-oriented coordination program module for the control of the operations-oriented information and data flow, having switching procedure program modules that, independent of the type of terminal equipment and independent of communications services, are structure for forming logical sub-processes of the overall switching process such that further performance feature program modules for the activation and de-activation of corresponding control procedures are formed in addition to at least one connection control program module for the control of set up and clear down of connections, and having at least one security-oriented check and evaluation program module for the implementation of non-time-critical, security-oriented check and evaluation events,means for the administration of an operations-oriented and security-oriented application task structure having application program modules for the execution of application-oriented functions,whereby at least one part of the program modules are respectively individually accessible to the data base via defined data base access routines, andmeans for connecting the line technology task structure to the operating technology and switching technology coordination task structure and to the operations-oriented and security-oriented application task structure, having a program bus structure having at least one transmission protocol which operates independently of the communications service and the type of terminal equipment for the message communicated thereover formed and administered by the at least one multi-tasking operation system;
the apparatus program modules operatively connected to at least one of the program bus structure, the terminal equipment and the operating technology terminal equipment;
the coordination program module operatively connected to at least the program bus structure;
the application program modules operatively connected to at least the program bus structure.
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Abstract
Modularly Structured Digital Communications System having Operations-Oriented and Security-Oriented Components. The switching-oriented, the operations-oriented and the security-oriented components are divided into three structure levels such that apparatus program modules for generating logical switching technology messages, operating technology messages or security technology messages are provided in a line technology task structure. An operations-oriented coordination program module and switching procedure program modules for the control of the operations-oriented and of the switching-oriented information and data flow are provided in an operating technology switching technology coordination task structure. At least one operations-oriented and one security-oriented application program module for sequencing operations-oriented or security-oriented jobs are provided in an application task structure.
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29 Claims
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1. A modularly structured digital communications system for connecting terminal equipment to one another and to public networks comprising:
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at least one operating technology terminal equipment; at least one alarm indicting terminal equipment indicating alarm reports acquired from system-security-oriented test procedures; and a central system computer having a system data base and at least one multi-tasking operating system, said central computer system further comprising means for administration of a line technology task structure having apparatus program modules for interfacing with types of terminal equipment for generating logical messages and operating technology messages from inputs received from at least one of the terminal equipment and operating technology terminal equipment, and for outputting setting data corresponding to the type of terminal equipment and acquired from at least one of logical messages, operating technology messages, and alarm messages, the setting data being provided for at least one of terminal equipment and operating technology terminal equipment and alarm indicating terminal equipment, means for administration of operating technology and switching technology coordination task structure having an operations-oriented coordination program module for the control of the operations-oriented information and data flow, having switching procedure program modules that, independent of the type of terminal equipment and independent of communications services, are structure for forming logical sub-processes of the overall switching process such that further performance feature program modules for the activation and de-activation of corresponding control procedures are formed in addition to at least one connection control program module for the control of set up and clear down of connections, and having at least one security-oriented check and evaluation program module for the implementation of non-time-critical, security-oriented check and evaluation events, means for the administration of an operations-oriented and security-oriented application task structure having application program modules for the execution of application-oriented functions, whereby at least one part of the program modules are respectively individually accessible to the data base via defined data base access routines, and means for connecting the line technology task structure to the operating technology and switching technology coordination task structure and to the operations-oriented and security-oriented application task structure, having a program bus structure having at least one transmission protocol which operates independently of the communications service and the type of terminal equipment for the message communicated thereover formed and administered by the at least one multi-tasking operation system; the apparatus program modules operatively connected to at least one of the program bus structure, the terminal equipment and the operating technology terminal equipment; the coordination program module operatively connected to at least the program bus structure; the application program modules operatively connected to at least the program bus structure. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25)
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26. A modularly structured digital communications system for connecting terminal equipment to one another and to public networks comprising:
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at least one operating technology terminal equipment; at least one alarm indicating terminal equipment indicating alarm reports acquired from system-security-oriented test procedures; and a central system computer having a system data base and at least one multi-tasking operating system, said central system computer further comprising means for administration of a line technology task structure having apparatus program modules for interfacing with types of terminal equipment for generating logical messages and operating technology messages from inputs received from at least one of the terminal equipment and operating technology terminal equipment, and for outputting setting data corresponding to the type of terminal equipment and acquired from at least one of logical messages, operating technology messages, and alarm messages, the setting data being provided for at least one of terminal equipment and operating technology terminal equipment and alarm indicating terminal equipment, means for administration of an operating technology and switching technology coordination task structure having an operations-oriented coordination program module for the control of the operations-oriented information and data flow, having switching procedure program modules that, independent of the type of terminal equipment and independent of communications services, are structured for forming logical sub-processes of the overall switching process such that further performance feature program modules for the activation and de-activation of corresponding control procedures are formed in addition to at least one connection control program module for the control of set up and clear down of connections, and having at least one security-oriented check and evaluation program module for the implementation of non-time-critical, security-oriented check and evaluation events, means for the administration of an operations-oriented and security-oriented application task structure having application program modules for the execution of application-oriented functions, whereby at least one part of the program modules are respectively individually accessible to the data base via defined data base access routines, and means for connecting the line technology task structure to the operating technology and switching technology coordination task structure and the the operations-oriented and security-oriented application task structure, having a program bus structure having at least one transmission protocol which operates independently of the communications service and the type of terminal equipment for the messages communicated thereover formed and administered by the at least one multi-tasking operating system; the apparatus program modules operatively connected to at least one of the program bus structure, the terminal equipment and the operating technology terminal equipment; the coordination program module operatively connected to at least the program bus structure; the application program modules operatively connected to at least the program bus structure; a transmission protocol, a virtual terminal protocol, defined independently of the communications service and independently of the type of terminal equipment, provided for the program bus structure for operations-oriented messages transmitted between the line technology task structure and the operation technology coordination task structure, and a further transmission protocol, a virtual application protocol, also defined independently of the communications service and the type of terminal equipment and providing a compact data arrangement having a reduced number of control characters, provided for the program bus structure for messages transmitted within the application task structure and between the application task structure and the operations technology coordination task structure; a text processor program module provided for converting messages in one of the two transmission protocols into messages in the other transmission protocol; and messages in the virtual terminal protocol and in the virtual application protocol structured such that a system data head part having a defined sequence of message origin and message destination addresses is followed by a specific data head part associated with operations technology having protocol identification information different for the two protocols, by a designation of a job session to which the respective message belongs and by a destination address indicating the application program module required for running off the job session. - View Dependent Claims (27, 28)
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29. A modularly structured digital communications system for connecting terminal equipment to one another and to public networks comprising:
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at least one operating technology terminal equipment; at least one alarm indicating terminal equipment indicating alarm reports acquired from system-security-oriented test procedures; and a central system computer having a system data base and at least one multi-tasking operating system, said central system computer further comprising means for administration of a line technology task structure having apparatus program modules for interfacing with types of terminal equipment for generating logical messages and operating technology messages from inputs received from at least one of the terminal equipment and operating technology terminal equipment, and for outputting setting data corresponding to the type of terminal equipment and acquired from at least one of logical messages, operating technology messages, and alarm messages, the setting data being provided for at least one of terminal equipment and operating technology terminal equipment and alarm indicating terminal equipment, means for administration of an operating technology and switching technology coordination task structure having an operations-oriented coordination program module for the control of the operations-oriented information and data flow, having switching procedure program modules that, independent of the type of terminal equipment and independent of communications services, are structured for forming logical sub-processes of the overall switching process such that further performance feature program modules for the activation and de-activation of corresponding control procedures are formed in addition to at least one connection control program module for the control of set up and clear down of connections, and having at least one security-oriented check and evaluation program module for the implementation of non-time-critical, security-oriented check and evaluation events, means for the administration of an operations-oriented and security-oriented application task structure having application program modules for the execution of application-oriented functions, whereby at least one part of the program modules are respectively individually accessible to the data base via defined data base access routines, and means for connecting the line technology task structure to the operating technology and switching technology coordination task structure and to the operations-oriented and security-oriented application task structure, having a program bus structure having at lest one transmission protocol which operates independently of the communications service and the type of terminal equipment for the messages communicated thereover formed and administered by the at least one multi-tasking operating system; the apparatus program modules operatively connected to at least one of the program bus structure, the terminal equipment and the operating technology terminal equipment; the coordination program module operatively connected to at least the program bus structure; the application program module operatively connected to at least the program bus structure; at least a part of the apparatus program modules for a further, second sub-module having security-oriented functions in addition to having a sub-module adapted to a main function of switching technology and operating technology for a connected type of terminal equipment; the apparatus program modules having a pre-processing program level that evaluates signals output by at least one of the terminal equipment or by the operating technology terminal equipment based on individual line criteria and converting messages from the operating technology coordination and switching technology task structure into setting data for at least one of the terminal equipment, operating technology terminal equipment or alarm indicating terminal equipment, and having an evaluation program level that converts the signal inputs of all types of terminal equipment into protocol-suited messages by means of system-associated parameters, an allocation program resident in the evaluation program level respectively branching messages and information into the sub-modules dependent on function.
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