EP0836312A2
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Methods and apparatus for verifying network database query-response transactions
Assignee: Agilent Technologies Inc
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Filing: 1997-08-14
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Granted: —
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Expires: 2017-08-14
Abstract
Abstract Database query and response messages traversing signalling links in an SS7 signalling system, to enable local number portability (LNP) to be implemented, are passively monitored by a verification system. This verification system has its own copy of the LNP database, which it interrogates with information contained in a monitored query message. The system compares the results of this interrogation with the contents of the monitored response message corresponding to the query message. Any discrepancy indicates a potential problem with the LNP database.
Inventors
- 👤 Salih Kabay
Bibliographic Details
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2026-11-06 11:48
CPC Classifications
H; H04; H04Q; H04Q3/00; H04Q3/0016; H04Q3/0025; H04M; H04M3/00; H04M3/22; H04M3/2254
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 4
Claim 1
Independent Claim
68 words
A method for verifying network database query-response transactions implemented
with messages traversing a signalling system, comprising the steps of: monitoring signalling system links for signalling messages which relate to network
database query-response transactions; and comparing information contained in network database response messages to
information contained in a database different from the database used to generate the response
messages, to verify accuracy of the information in the response messages.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
27 words
The method of claim 1, wherein said different database is updated with information
from a source which also updates the database used to generate the response messages.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
25 words
The method of claim 1 or claim 2, wherein said transactions are local number
portability transactions in a telecommunications network associated with the signalling
system.
Claim 4
Independent Claim
65 words
The method of any one of the preceding claims, wherein messages relating to
different parts of a query-response transaction contain identifying data associating them with
that transaction, data contained in a database query message is used to access information
in said different database, and that information is compared with information in a database
response message having the same identifying data as said database query message.
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