System and method for reporting telecommunication service conditions
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1. A fault manager system for reporting events, said events describing conditions of telecommunication services including service types and facilities, comprising:
- a server for receiving the events from a fault manager host and building an event report based on said events and an event view;
said server configured to build said report for a customer using only events related to a package of services leased by said customer; and
at least one workstation, coupled to said server, said workstation comprising;
means for defining said event view, said event view specifying events to be reported to a user;
means for sending said event view to said server;
means for receiving said event view to said server; and
means for displaying events in said event report on a monitor.
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Abstract
A system and method for reporting, directly to a customer, conditions of telecommunications services to which the customer subscribes. The system includes a server for collecting fault information from the telecommunications network management system and a customer workstation for viewing the information. The customer can use the workstation to define a view of the data he wishes to receive. The server builds reports using the view, and provides the reports to the customer.
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1. A fault manager system for reporting events, said events describing conditions of telecommunication services including service types and facilities, comprising:
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a server for receiving the events from a fault manager host and building an event report based on said events and an event view; said server configured to build said report for a customer using only events related to a package of services leased by said customer; and at least one workstation, coupled to said server, said workstation comprising; means for defining said event view, said event view specifying events to be reported to a user; means for sending said event view to said server; means for receiving said event view to said server; and means for displaying events in said event report on a monitor. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5)
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6. In a fault manager system for reporting events, said events describing conditions of telecommunication services including service types and facilities, said system including a server for receiving only events related to a package of services leased by a customer from a fault manager host and building an event report for said customer based on said events and an event view and at least one workstation, coupled to said server, a computer program product comprising a computer usable medium having computer readable program code means embodied in said medium for causing an application program to execute on said workstation, said computer readable program code means comprising:
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a computer readable first program code means for causing said workstation to define said event view, said event view specifying events to be reported to a user; a computer readable second program code means for causing said workstation to send said event view to said server; a computer readable third program code means for causing said workstation to receive said event report from said server; and a computer readable fourth program code means for causing said workstation to display said events in said event report on a monitor. - View Dependent Claims (7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. In a fault manager system for reporting events, said events describing conditions of telecommunication services including service types and facilities, said system including a server for receiving events, related to a package of services leased by a customer, from a fault manager host and building an event report for said customer based on said events and an event view and at least one workstation, coupled to said server, a method for reporting conditions of telecommunication services comprising the steps of:
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(a) defining a view of events to be reported by the server to the workstation; (b) sending said view to the server; (c) at the server, building a report of events defined by said view; (d) sending said report to said workstation; and (e) displaying said events to a monitor. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15)
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