Method for controlling operation and management subsystem in signalling message exchange No. 1 system

• US 5,657,250 A
• Filed: 06/07/1995
• Issued: 08/12/1997
• Est. Priority Date: 12/21/1994
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Korea Telecommunication Authority
• Original Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Korea Telecommunication Authority
• Inventors: Park, Nam Hoon, Oh, Hyun Ju, Ko, Byung Do, Yang, Sun Hee
• Primary Examiner(s): Kizou, Hassan
• Application Number:
  US08/479,214
• Time in Patent Office: 797 Days
• Field of Search: 370/43, 370/58.2, 370/68.1, 370/92, 370/99, 370/110.1, 370/360, 370/384, 370/389, 370/359, 370/419, 370/466, 370/522, 379/229, 379/230, 364/514 R, 395/600, 395/650, 395/850
• US Class Current: 370/359
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/40 Network security protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 11/00 Selecting arrangements for multiplex systems multiplex systems H04J
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2213/13097 Numbering, addressing
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 3/0025 Provisions for signalling
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 3/54533 Configuration data, translation, passwords, databases
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 3/54566 Intelligent peripherals, adjunct processors

Abstract

A method for controlling an operation and management subsystem in a signalling message exchange No.1 system, the operation and management subsystem including a user interface subsystem, a target interface subsystem, an operation control subsystem, a signalling network operation system interworking subsystem, an operation and management subsystem management subsystem and a data management subsystem. The method includes the steps of when the operation and management subsystem being at an idle state receives a message from the target system, converting the message by the target interface subsystem into a format for a selected one of the subsystems of the operation and management subsystem on the basis of a module identifier value of the message and then executing a control associated with the message by the selected subsystem, while when the operation and management subsystem being at the idle state receives a message from an operation and management worksite, converting the message by the user interface subsystem into a format for a selected one of the subsystems of the operation and management subsystem on the basis of a module identifier value of the message and then executing a control associated with the message from the user interface subsystem in the selected subsystem.

Claims

1. A method for controlling an operation and management subsystem(OMS) in a signalling message exchange No.1 system(SMX-1), the OMS including a user interface subsystem(UIS), a target interface subsystem(TIS), an operation control subsystem(OCS), an interworking subsystem of a signalling network operation system(SIGIS), a management subsystem of the operation and management subsystem(OMSMS) and a data management subsystem(DMS), comprising the steps of:

(a) when the OMS being at an idle state receives a message from the SMX-1 via a highway interface unit(HIFU), transmitting the message to the TIS, deciding which subsystem the message is to be transmitted to based on a module identifier value of the message, converting the message into a format compatible with the decided subsystem and outputting the converted message to the decided subsystem;

(b) when the identifier value is 1 at the step (a), outputting the converted message to the SIGIS, reconverting the converted message into a format compatible with a signalling network operations system(SIGNOS) and outputting the reconverted message to the SIGNOS;

(c) when the identifier value is 0 at the step (a), outputting the converted message to the OCS, reconverting the converted message into a format compatible with a database equipped in the OMS and storing the reconverted message into the database;

(d) when the identifier value is 2 at the step (a), outputting the converted message to the UIS, formatting the converted message into a format compatible with a printer or a user and outputting the formatted message to the printer or the user;

(e) when the OMS being at an idle state receives a message from an operation and management worksite(OMW), transmitting the message to the UIS, deciding which subsystem the message is to be transmitted to based on a module identifier value of the message, converting the message into a format compatible with the decided subsystem and outputting the converted message to the decided subsystem;

(f) when the identifier value is 0 at the step (e), transmitting the converted message to the DMS via the OCS, retrieving data of the database by the DMS;

(g) when the identifier value is 3 at the step (e), outputting the converted message to the OMSMS and monitoring a current state of OMS by the OMSMS;

(h) when the identifier value is 4 at the step (e), outputting the converted message to the SMX-1 via the HIFU; and

(i) when the identifier value is 1 at the step (e), outputting the converted message to the SIGIS, reconverting the converted message into a format compatible with the SIGNOS and outputting the reconverted message to the SIGNOS.