Unique repository server in an operations and maintenance center for a telecommunications system

• US 7,035,392 B2
• Filed: 04/02/2003
• Issued: 04/25/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 04/03/2002
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: RPX Corporation
• Original Assignee: Evolium SAS (Nokia Corporation)
• Inventors: Barré, Patrick, Rakotoarivelo, Jarisoa, Beucher, Yannick
• Primary Examiner(s): Deane, Jr., William J.
• Application Number:
  US10/404,143
• Publication Number:
  US 20030212685A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,119 Days
• Field of Search: 372/242, 37222101-22106, 714/4
• US Class Current: 379/242
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/042 comprising distributed management centres cooperatively managing the network
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 3/0062 Provisions for network management

Abstract

The invention relates to an operations and maintenance center for a telecommunications system comprising:

• • server means 5 for storing of first information being indicative of network elements of the telecommunications system and of second information being indicative of assignments of network elements and resource managers 2,
  • information retrieval means 12 for generating third information being indicative of network elements being assigned to one of the resource managers.

Claims

1. An operations and maintenance center for a telecommunications system comprising a plurality of network elements and a plurality of resource managers which are communicably linked to the network elements and the operations and maintenance center, the resource managers managing operations of the network elements, the operations and maintenance center comprising:

a relational database which stores first information indicative of the network elements of the telecommunications system and second information indicative of assignments of network elements and resource; and

means for assigning at least one of network elements to one of the resource managers and including information retrieval means for generating third information indicative of the at least one of the network elements being assigned to the one of the resource managers.

2. The operations and maintenance center of claim 1, wherein the information retrieval means is adapted to perform a query in the relational database means in order to generate the third information.

3. The operations and maintenance center of claim 1, wherein the server means a repository server of the telecommunications system.

4. The operations and maintenance center of claim 1, wherein the means for assigning the network elements comprises:

means for determining a number of network elements assigned to each one of the resource managers;

means for determining one of the resource managers having a minimal number of assigned network elements;

means for assigning an additional network element to the one of the resource managers having the minimal number of network; and

means for storing the assignment of the additional network element to the one of the resource managers as second information in the relational database.

5. A method for managing operations and maintenance of a telecommunications system at an operations and maintenance center, the telecommunications systems comprising a plurality of network elements and a plurality of resource managers which are communicably linked to the network elements and the operations and maintenance center, the resource managers managing operations of the network elements, the method comprising:

storing of first information being indicative of network elements of the telecommunications system in a relational database of the operations and maintenance center;

storing of second information being indicative of assignments of network elements and resource managers in the relational database of the operations and maintenance center; and

assigning at least one of network elements to one of the resource managers and generating of third information being indicative of the at least one network elements being assigned to the one of the resource managers.

6. The method of claim 5, further comprising:

inputting information regarding a new network element;

determining a number of network elements assigned to each of the resource managers;

determining one of the resource managers having a minimal number of network elements;

assigning the additional network element to the one of the resource managers having the minimal number of assigned network elements; and

storing of the assignment of the additional network element and the one of the resource managers as second information in the relational database.

7. The method of claim 5, further comprising:

starting of one of the resource managers;

requesting third information for the one of the resource managers;

generating the requested third information by means of information retrieval from the relational database; and

providing the requested third information to the one of the resource managers.

8. A computer program product for an operations and maintenance center of a telecommunications system which comprises a plurality of network elements and a plurality of resource managers which are communicably linked to the network elements and the operations and maintenance center, the resource managers managing operations of the network elements, the computer program product comprising:

program means for storing in a relational database of the operations and maintenance center first information indicative of network elements of the telecommunications system and second information indicative of assignments of network elements and resource managers; and

means for assigning at least one of the network elements to one of the resource managers and including data retrieval means for generating third information indicative of the at least one of network elements being assigned to the one of the resource manager processes.