Network management system
US5533116A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Nov 7, 1994 |
| Grant date | Jul 2, 1996 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Nov 7, 2014 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
- CPC primaryY10S379/902
- WIPO fieldDigital communication
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A network management system for configurating and reading data and states of several network elements, such as telephone exchanges, of a telecommunication network by giving the network elements commands according to their internal command language when at least some of the network elements of the telecommunication network have mutually different internal command languages includes a memory for storing parameters describing the command language of each network element, a generator for generating service requests (Rq) in a network element-independent format, a converter (21, 22, 23) for converting the network element independent service requests into commands according to the command language of the network element which is the target of service by using parameters describing the command language of the network element, and a sender for sending the generated commands to the network element which is the target of service. The network management updates the parameter files automatically by giving the network elements a specific command which reads the internal data structures, such as syntactic, semantic and user help data, of any other internal command or command response of the netwo…
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