System and method for supporting and managing telecommunications services
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1. A system for supporting and managing telecommunications services in a telecommunications network, comprising:
- a management information base builder toolkit for specifying object definitions in an object-oriented framework of a plurality of managed objects that model resources within the telecommunications network and business systems supporting and managing the network resources; and
a master management information base storing the object definitions of the plurality of managed objects.
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Abstract
A system and method for supporting and managing telecommunications services in a telecommunications network includes a management information base builder toolkit (66, 110) for specifying object definitions in an object-oriented framework of a plurality of managed objects (112) that model resources (64) within the telecommunications network. The toolkit (66, 110) is used to construct a master management information base (70, 116) for storing the object definitions of the plurality of managed objects (112).
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39 Claims
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1. A system for supporting and managing telecommunications services in a telecommunications network, comprising:
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a management information base builder toolkit for specifying object definitions in an object-oriented framework of a plurality of managed objects that model resources within the telecommunications network and business systems supporting and managing the network resources; and
a master management information base storing the object definitions of the plurality of managed objects. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
an attribute definition;
a method definition; and
a definition of relationships between the managed object and other managed objects, if any.
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14. A method for supporting and managing telecommunications services in a telecommunications network, comprising:
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specifying object definitions in an object-oriented framework of a plurality of managed objects that model resources within the telecommunications network and business systems supporting and managing the network resources;
storing the object definitions of the plurality of managed objects in a master management information base accessible to operation and support systems;
andgenerating service management programs in response to accessing the stored object definitions, the service management programs operable to allow the operation and support systems to manage data associated with the modeled resources. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26)
specifying an attribute definition;
specifying a method definition; and
specifying a definition of relationships between the managed object and other managed objects, if any.
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27. A system for supporting and managing telecommunications services in a telecommunications network, comprising:
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a master management information base storing object definitions in an object-oriented framework of a plurality of managed objects, the managed objects modeling resources within the telecommunications network; and
a service management program toolkit in communication with the master management information base and operable to access the managed objects, the service management toolkit further operable to create a service management program operable to manage at least one of the telecommunications services. - View Dependent Claims (28, 29, 30, 31, 32)
a management information base builder toolkit in communication with the master management information base and operable to generate new object definitions in the master management information base, the generated object definitions being associated with creating resource definitions for at least one added telecommunications service; and
wherein the service management program is generated by the service management program toolkit using the generated object definitions, the service management program being operable to manage the at least one added telecommunications service, the service management program being communicated by a service management system of the telecommunications network to a network management system of the telecommunications netware, the service management program being further operable to provide front office functionality associated with the at least one added telecommunications service.
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33. A method for supporting and managing telecommunications services in a telecommunications network, comprising:
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generating object definitions, the object definitions modeling resources in the telecommunications network;
storing the object definitions in an object-oriented framework;
accessing certain of the object definitions that are associated with a particular telecommunications service; and
creating a service management program in response to the accessed object definitions, the service management program operable to manage the particular telecommunications service. - View Dependent Claims (34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39)
generating a service definition package, the service definition package including the created service management program and additional resources associated with the particular telecommunications service; and
communicating the service definition package to a network node, the network node using the service definition package to manage the particular telecommunications service.
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