Product-independent performance monitoring tool kit

• US 6,041,332 A
• Filed: 12/31/1997
• Issued: 03/21/2000
• Est. Priority Date: 12/31/1997
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: WSOU Investments, LLC (WSOU Holdings, LLC)
• Original Assignee: Alcatel USA Sourcing L.P. (Nokia Corporation)
• Inventors: Ouellette, Christopher J., Haney, Scott J., Miller, Daniel L.
• Primary Examiner(s): HO, RUAY L
• Application Number:
  US09/001,321
• Time in Patent Office: 811 Days
• Field of Search: 707/1-10, 707/100-104, 707/200-206, 379/93, 379/5, 379/229, 706/10, 370/389, 370/466, 395/200.37, 395/200.61, 395/680, 705/3, 705/35
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/70 Software maintenance or management
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/04 Processing captured monitoring data, e.g. for logfile generation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/0817 by checking functioning
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/16 Threshold monitoring
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99945 Object-oriented database structure processing
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99948 Application of database or data structure, e.g. distributed, multimedia, or image

Abstract

A method for configuring software to monitor, generate, acquire, collect, store and analyze Performance Monitoring (PM) data from telecommunication equipment, includes the steps of maintaining a library of product-independent PM data processing modules maintaining product-dependent data relating selected ones of the processing modules with each of a plurality of telecommunication equipment systems, and generating PM software corresponding to one or more of the telecommunication equipment systems by assembling the processing modules in accordance with the product-dependent data.

Claims

1. A method for configuring software to monitor, generate, acquire, collect, store and analyze Performance Monitoring (PM) data from telecommunication equipment, comprising:

maintaining a library of product-independent PM data processing modules;

maintaining product-dependent data relating selected ones of the processing modules with each of a plurality of telecommunication equipment systems; and

generating PM software corresponding to one or more of the telecommunication equipment systems by assembling the processing modules in accordance with the product-dependent data, wherein the library-maintaining step comprises maintaining a PM multiplexer module for packaging the PM data into a single byte stream for collection.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the library-maintaining step comprises maintaining product-independent processing modules provided with product-independent strictly defined interface formats.

3. The method of claim 2 wherein the data maintaining step comprises maintaining product-dependent data that includes data relating product-specific interface formats to the product-independent strictly defined interface formats.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein the library-maintaining step comprises maintaining a PM data acquisition library module for acquiring PM data.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein the library-maintaining step comprises maintaining a PM storage module for storing the PM data for fast, efficient access and analysis.

7. A method for performance monitoring of telecommunication equipment using the software configured according to claim 1.

5. A method for configuring software to monitor, generate, acquire, collect, store and analyze Performance Monitoring (PM) data from telecommunication equipment, comprising:

maintaining a library of product-independent PM data processing modules;

maintaining product-dependent data relating selected ones of the processing modules with each of a plurality of telecommunication equipment systems; and

generating PM software corresponding to one or more of the telecommunication equipment systems by assembling the processing modules in accordance with the product-dependent data, wherein the library-maintaining step comprises maintaining a PM demultiplexer module for unpackaging a collected single byte stream of the PM data for storage.

8. A method for performance monitoring (PM) of telecommunication equipment, comprising:

providing PM signals the telecommunication equipment to PM data modules in a product-independent PM data acquisition library;

generating PM data in the modules, responsive to the PM signals;

transmitting the PM data to a product-independent PM multiplexer module;

packaging, in the PM multiplexer module, the PM data into a single byte stream;

collecting the packaged byte stream to a product-independent PM demultiplexer module;

unpackaging the byte stream, in the PM demultiplexer module, into the PM data; and

storing the unpackaged PM data, with a product-independent PM storage module, for later access and analysis.