System for managing networks using rules and including an inference engine

• US 20040054769A1
• Filed: 07/30/2003
• Published: 03/18/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 07/31/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: WSOU Investments, LLC (WSOU Holdings, LLC)
• Original Assignee: Alcatel SA (Nokia Corporation)
• Inventors: Poupel, Olivier, Gonguet, Arnaud, Koops, Mark
• Granted Patent: US 8,055,742 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/223
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0893 Assignment of logical groups to network elements
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0894 Policy-based network configuration management
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/16 using machine learning or artificial intelligence
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/5041 characterised by the time relationship between creation and deployment of a service

Abstract

A network management system for implementing a service on a network acquires policy rules for configuring the service, determines commands corresponding to the policy rules and transmits them to network elements, and infers the rules in order to determine the commands. The rules comprise services rules and implementation rules.

Claims

1. A network management system for implementing a service on a network, said system including means for acquiring policy rules for configuring said service, means for determining commands corresponding to said policy rules and transmitting them to network elements, and processing means for inferring said rules in order to determine said commands, in which system said rules comprise services rules and implementation rules.

2. The network management system claimed in claim 1 wherein said processing means include an inference engine.

3. The network management system claimed in claim 1 wherein said implementation rules include technology rules and/or equipment rules.