Managing a wireless platform

• US 7,266,729 B2
• Filed: 12/27/2002
• Issued: 09/04/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 12/27/2002
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Original Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Inventors: Bahr, Casey, Reilly, Patrick L.
• Primary Examiner(s): CHU, GABRIEL L
• Application Number:
  US10/330,654
• Publication Number:
  US 20040128586A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,712 Days
• Field of Search: 379/27.01, 714/41
• US Class Current: 714/41
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/0709 in a distributed system consisting of a plurality of standalone computer nodes, e.g. clusters, client-server systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/0742 in a data processing system embedded in a mobile device, e.g. mobile phones, handheld devices
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/0793 Remedial or corrective actions recovery from an exception in an instruction pipeline G06F9/3861; by retry G06F11/1402; for recovering from a failure of a protocol instance or entity H04L69/40
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3476 Data logging G06F11/14, G06F11/2205 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/14 Charging , metering or billing arrangements for data wireline or wireless communications
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0233 Object-oriented techniques, for representation of network management data, e.g. common object request broker architecture [CORBA]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0631 using root cause analysis; using analysis of correlation between notifications, alarms or events based on decision criteria, e.g. hierarchy, tree or time analysis
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0677 Localisation of faults
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0681 Configuration of triggering conditions
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0806 for initial configuration or provisioning, e.g. plug-and-play
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/5012 determining service availability, e.g. which services are available at a certain point in time
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/125 involving control of end-device applications over a network
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/18 Negotiating wireless communication parameters

Abstract

In one embodiment of the present invention, a wireless platform may be managed by an operations, administration, and maintenance system which may include a configuration manager, a performance manager, an accounting manager, a fault manager, an event manager, and a notification manager.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

a configuration manager on a wireless network device, which is connectable to a remote base station, to define and maintain configuration data regarding a resource of the wireless network device via a plurality of managed objects that represent the resource; and

a fault manager located on the wireless network device comprising a main fault manager for managing faults of the managed objects and a shadow fault manager for managing faults of the main fault manager, the shadow fault manager to isolate a fault of the main fault manager to a faulty object, to supply and initialize a replacement object for the faulty object, and to reduce functionality of a platform associated with the faulty object.

2. The system of claim 1, further comprising a performance manager of the wireless network device to measure performance of the resource of the wireless network device via the plurality of managed objects.

3. The system of claim 1, further comprising an accounting manager in the wireless network device to maintain accounting information related to the wireless network device;

wherein the accounting information includes a software attribute and a software method associated with each of the following;

service subscription information and account balance information that is viewable on the wireless network device.

4. The system of claim 1, further comprising a database within the wireless network device to store the configuration data.

5. The system of claim 1, further comprising an alarm log manager to filter a plurality of alarms based on a predetermined constraint.

6. The system of claim 5, wherein the predetermined constraint includes fault severity.

7. The system of claim 5, further comprising a circular buffer for storing an alarm log.

8. A method comprising:

repairing a fault in response to an alarm condition detected by a main fault manager for managing faults of a plurality of managed objects of a wireless network device, wherein the main fault manager is located exclusively in the wireless network device, wherein the wireless network device is connectable to a remote base station, wherein the alarm condition originates in the main fault manager, the repairing using a shadow fault manager located exclusively in the wireless network device that isolates the fault of the main fault manager to a faulty object, replaces the faulty object with a replacement object, and reduces functionality of a platform associated with the faulty object if the replacement object does not resolve the alarm condition.

9. The method of claim 8, further comprising verifying that the fault has been repaired.

10. The method of claim 8, further comprising generating a service incident record corresponding to the fault.

11. The method of claim 10, further comprising temporarily storing the service incident record on the wireless network device when not connected to the remote base station.

12. The method of claim 10, further comprising transmitting the service incident record to the remote base station.

13. The method of claim 8, further comprising filtering a plurality of alarms based on fault severity and the size of a memory for storing the filtered alarms.