Resource model and architecture for a connection handling system

US6044065A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ) · SE

Inventors

• Staffan Andersson · Lund, SE
• Torgny Anders Lindberg · Tullinge, SE
• Lars Kent Konradsson · Huddinge, SE
• Bengt Stavenow · Lund, SE

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 12, 1996
• Grant date: Mar 28, 2000
• Expiry date: Dec 12, 2016

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H04L2012/5632
• WIPO field: Telecommunications
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A resource model for modeling the resources of a telecommunication network that uses a number of different switching technologies. The resource model comprises three layers, a network layer, a node layer and a component layer, each layer comprising resource objects. The resource objects of the network layer are encapsulated to applications which use the network. The resource objects of the node layer are encapsulated to the resource objects of the network layer and the resource objects at the component layer are encapsulated to the resource objects of the node layer. The resource model comprises connection handling function for setting up connections in the telecommunication network. The functions are divided into function components. Function components at the network layer operate on resource objects at the network layer only, function components at the node layer operate on resource objects at the node layer only and function components at the component layer operate on resource objects at the component layer.