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Maintenance operations console for an advanced intelligent network

  • US 6,018,567 A
  • Filed: 02/26/1998
  • Issued: 01/25/2000
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/22/1995
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. In an advanced intelligent network (AIN) comprising a plurality of AIN elements providing call processing functions in a public switched telephone network and a data network providing operations messages between the AIN elements, wherein each of said AIN elements includes an operating software subsystem, an application software subsystem performing a call processing function, a communication subsystem sending and receiving operations messages to and from said each AIN element via a standardized transport protocol, and a monitoring subsystem identifying errors in each of the subsystems of said each AIN element, a maintenance and operations console (MOC) coupled to said plurality of AIN elements via a data communication network for monitoring said plurality of AIN elements, said MOC comprising:

  • an alarm management module for receiving and organizing alarms from the plurality of AIN elements in response to the application subsystem of an AIN element sending an alarm and an operational priority of the alarm;

    a topology map module for organizing the alarms received by said alarm module for display on a graphic user interface; and

    a failover/recovery system for performing corrective countermeasures by outputting correction commands to different AIN elements in response to detected alarms from the alarm management module.

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