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Operations and maintenace architecture for multiprotocol distributed system

US7313626B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateMar 29, 2001
Grant dateDec 25, 2007
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Expiry dateJun 27, 2024

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04W88/00
  • WIPO fieldDigital communication
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

The present disclosure is directed to an open access Network Management System (NMS) that provides multiple tenants in an open access wireless distribution system with an appropriate level of access and control over the system elements that carry their signaling. For example, in addition to forwarding messages from tenant-controlled NMSs to the open access system elements, the open access NMS preferably acts as a caching firewall to ensure that the tenant NMS are permitted privileges to access only those system elements to which they are a properly assigned. A database function included with the open access NMS may be used to build and maintain a database of operations and maintenance information from autonomously initiated poll and status functions. This then permits queries from tenant NMSs to be answered without the need to duplicate open system network traffic.

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