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Management system architecture and design method to support reuse

US6018625A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateAug 27, 1997
Grant dateJan 25, 2000
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Expiry dateAug 27, 2017

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  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04L2012/5626
  • WIPO fieldDigital communication
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A management base of a communications network manager is constructed using object oriented techniques. A network comprises a plurality of physical resources in the form of components and assemblies of components, which are distributed across the network. A management system for the network is constructed in an evolutionary manner by representing an overall functionality of the network by an application model in which each function of the network is modeled independently of its implementation, decomposing the application model into an implementation model in which every function represented in the application model is represented in the implementation model, representing the application model as a plurality of objects, representing the implementation model as another plurality of objects, connecting the objects of the application model and implementation model together to obtain a combined object model, and constructing a management base according to the combined object model.

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