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Network element in a telecommunication network

US5696697A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateJun 13, 1995
Grant dateDec 9, 1997
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Expiry dateJun 13, 2015

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY10S707/99944
  • WIPO fieldTelecommunications
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A network element in a telecommunication network providing a number of different types of services, supports several telecommunication network applications (1304, 1306). It furthermore contains system resources and management information software. This software includes application specific management information and management information for system resources common to the applications, and is available to an operations system for managing the system resources when they are to be used. All of said management information is organized, from the point of view of naming, in several application specific management information bases each in the form of a respective hierarchical tree structure (1310, 1312).

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