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Network element in a telecommunication network
Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson AB
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Filing: 1995-06-13
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Granted: 1997-12-09
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Expires: 2015-06-13
Abstract
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).
Inventors
- 👤 Staffan Blau
- 👤 Goran Eneroth
- 👤 Peter Carlsund
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
Data Source
google_patents
Last Synchronized
2026-11-04 01:30
CPC Classifications
H; H04; H04Q; H04Q3/00; H04Q3/0016; H04Q3/0062; H04L; H04L41/00; H04L41/04; H04L41/052; H04Q2213/00; H04Q2213/13503; H04Q2213/13505; H04Q2213/13526; Y; Y10; Y10S; Y10S707/00; Y10S707/99931; Y10S707/99941; Y10S707/99944
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 21
Claim 1
Independent Claim
179 words
An operations support network for operation and maintenance of a telecommunication network comprising: an operations system and a datacommunication network, the operations system controlling the telecommunication network via the datacommunication network; the telecommunication network including at least one network element having means for performing at least two network element functions, each providing a telecommunication network application; the performing means having hardware and software resources including application specific resources and resources common to several applications; each network element having a software management view layer providing an interface to the operations system, wherein the network element appears as a number of managed objects representing resources and network element functions that are used by the operations system for managing a respective resource and network element function when performing a network element function, wherein the managed objects of said at least one network element have names organized in several hierarchical tree structures; all managed objects representing application specific resources are distributed on application specific tree structures, one for each application, and managed objects representing common resources are contained in a common tree structure.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
179 words
An operations support network for operation and maintenance of a telecommunication network comprising: an operations system and a datacommunication network, the operations system controlling the telecommunication network via the datacommunication network; the telecommunication network including at least one network element having means for performing at least two network element functions, each providing a telecommunication network application; the performing means having hardware and software resources including application specific resources and resources common to several applications; each network element having a software management view layer providing an interface to the operations system, wherein the network element appears as a number of managed objects representing resources and network element functions that are used by the operations system for managing a respective resource and network element function when performing a network element function, wherein the managed objects of said at least one network element have names organized in several hierarchical tree structures; all managed objects representing application specific resources are distributed on application specific tree structures, one for each application, and managed objects representing common resources are contained in a common tree structure.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
144 words
A telecommunication network comprising: at least one network element having means for performing at least two network element functions, each providing a telecommunication network application; the performing means having hardware and software resources including application specific resources and resources common to several applications; each network element having a software management view layer providing an interface to an operations system, wherein the network element appears as a number of managed objects representing resources and network element functions that are used for managing a respective resource and network element function when performing a network element function, wherein the managed objects of the at least one network element have names organized in several hierarchical tree structures; all managed objects representing application specific resources being distributed on application specific tree structures, one for each application, and managed objects representing common resources being contained in a common tree structure.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
144 words
A telecommunication network comprising: at least one network element having means for performing at least two network element functions, each providing a telecommunication network application; the performing means having hardware and software resources including application specific resources and resources common to several applications; each network element having a software management view layer providing an interface to an operations system, wherein the network element appears as a number of managed objects representing resources and network element functions that are used for managing a respective resource and network element function when performing a network element function, wherein the managed objects of the at least one network element have names organized in several hierarchical tree structures; all managed objects representing application specific resources being distributed on application specific tree structures, one for each application, and managed objects representing common resources being contained in a common tree structure.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
145 words
A network element included in a telecommunication network comprising: means for performing at least two network element functions, each providing a telecommunication network application; the means for performing having hardware and software resources including application specific resources and resources common to several applications, the network element having a software management view layer providing an interface to an operations system wherein the network element appears as a number of managed objects representing resources and network element functions that are used by the operating system for managing a respective resource and network element function when performing a network element function, wherein the managed objects of said network element have names organized in several hierarchical tree structures; all managed objects representing application specific resources are distributed on application specific tree structures, one for each application, and managed objects representing common resources are contained in a common tree structure.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
145 words
A network element included in a telecommunication network comprising: means for performing at least two network element functions, each providing a telecommunication network application; the means for performing having hardware and software resources including application specific resources and resources common to several applications, the network element having a software management view layer providing an interface to an operations system wherein the network element appears as a number of managed objects representing resources and network element functions that are used by the operating system for managing a respective resource and network element function when performing a network element function, wherein the managed objects of said network element have names organized in several hierarchical tree structures; all managed objects representing application specific resources are distributed on application specific tree structures, one for each application, and managed objects representing common resources are contained in a common tree structure.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
146 words
In a telecommunication network, a method for structuring software in a network element having means for performing at least two network element functions, each providing a telecommunication network application; the performing means having hardware and software resources including application specific resources and resources common to several applications, the network element having a software management view layer providing an interface to an operations system, wherein the network element appears as a number of managed objects representing resources and network element functions that are used by the operations system for managing a respective resource and network element functions when performing a network element function, comprising the steps of: organizing names of the managed objects in several hierarchical tree structures; distributing all managed objects representing application specific resources on application specific tree structures, one for each application, and locating managed objects representing common resources in a common tree structure.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
146 words
In a telecommunication network, a method for structuring software in a network element having means for performing at least two network element functions, each providing a telecommunication network application; the performing means having hardware and software resources including application specific resources and resources common to several applications, the network element having a software management view layer providing an interface to an operations system, wherein the network element appears as a number of managed objects representing resources and network element functions that are used by the operations system for managing a respective resource and network element functions when performing a network element function, comprising the steps of: organizing names of the managed objects in several hierarchical tree structures; distributing all managed objects representing application specific resources on application specific tree structures, one for each application, and locating managed objects representing common resources in a common tree structure.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
96 words
A network element in a telecommunication network providing a number of different types of services; the network element supporting several telecommunication network applications comprising, system resources and management information software that includes application specific management information and management information for system resources common to the applications, wherein the management information software is available to an operations system for managing the system resources when they are used, and the names identifying parts of all of the management information are organized in several application specific management information bases, each in the form of a respective hierarchical tree structure.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
96 words
A network element in a telecommunication network providing a number of different types of services; the network element supporting several telecommunication network applications comprising, system resources and management information software that includes application specific management information and management information for system resources common to the applications, wherein the management information software is available to an operations system for managing the system resources when they are used, and the names identifying parts of all of the management information are organized in several application specific management information bases, each in the form of a respective hierarchical tree structure.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim
109 words
A network element in a telecommunication network providing a number of different types of services; the network element supporting several telecommunication network applications comprising, system resources and management information software that includes application specific management information and management information for system resources common to the applications, wherein the management information software is available to an operations system for managing the system resources when they are used, and the names identifying parts of all of the management information are organized in several application specific management information bases, each in the form of a respective hierarchical tree structure and the management information for common resources is handled by a separate tree.
Claim 12
Dependent Claim
109 words
A network element in a telecommunication network providing a number of different types of services; the network element supporting several telecommunication network applications comprising, system resources and management information software that includes application specific management information and management information for system resources common to the applications, wherein the management information software is available to an operations system for managing the system resources when they are used, and the names identifying parts of all of the management information are organized in several application specific management information bases, each in the form of a respective hierarchical tree structure and the management information for common resources is handled by a separate tree.
Claim 13
Dependent Claim
113 words
A network element in a telecommunication network providing a number of different types of services; the network element supporting several telecommunication network applications comprising, system resources and management information software that includes application specific management information and management information for system resources common to the applications, wherein the management information software is available to an operations system for managing the system resources when they are used, and the names identifying parts of all of the management information are organized in several application specific management information bases, each in the form of a respective hierarchical tree structure and the management information for common resources is managed by the same tree as application specific information.
Claim 14
Dependent Claim
113 words
A network element in a telecommunication network providing a number of different types of services; the network element supporting several telecommunication network applications comprising, system resources and management information software that includes application specific management information and management information for system resources common to the applications, wherein the management information software is available to an operations system for managing the system resources when they are used, and the names identifying parts of all of the management information are organized in several application specific management information bases, each in the form of a respective hierarchical tree structure and the management information for common resources is managed by the same tree as application specific information.
Claim 15
Dependent Claim
142 words
A network element in a telecommunication network providing a number of different types of services; the network element supporting several telecommunication network applications comprising, system resources and management information software that includes application specific management information and management information for system resources common to the applications, wherein the management information software is available to an operations system for managing the system resources when they are used, and the names identifying parts of all of the management information are organized in several application specific management information bases, each in the form of a respective hierarchical tree structure and each management information tree for application specific information has a root object that is a managed object of a specific class of managed objects, or a subclass thereof, and the managed object is the only attribute having the name of the corresponding management information tree.
Claim 16
Dependent Claim
142 words
A network element in a telecommunication network providing a number of different types of services; the network element supporting several telecommunication network applications comprising, system resources and management information software that includes application specific management information and management information for system resources common to the applications, wherein the management information software is available to an operations system for managing the system resources when they are used, and the names identifying parts of all of the management information are organized in several application specific management information bases, each in the form of a respective hierarchical tree structure and each management information tree for application specific information has a root object that is a managed object of a specific class of managed objects, or a subclass thereof, and the managed object is the only attribute having the name of the corresponding management information tree.
Claim 17
Dependent Claim
36 words
A network element according to claim 8, wherein the management information tree for common system resources has a root object that is a managed object of the specific class of managed objects, or a subclass thereof.
Claim 18
Dependent Claim
106 words
A network element in a telecommunication network providing a number of different types of services; the network element supporting several telecommunication network applications comprising, system resources and management information software that includes application specific management information and management information for system resources common to the applications, wherein the management information software is available to an operations system for managing the system resources when they are used, and the names identifying parts of all of the management information are organized in several application specific management information bases, each in the form of a respective hierarchical tree structure and managed objects in different management information trees are related.
Claim 19
Dependent Claim
106 words
A network element in a telecommunication network providing a number of different types of services; the network element supporting several telecommunication network applications comprising, system resources and management information software that includes application specific management information and management information for system resources common to the applications, wherein the management information software is available to an operations system for managing the system resources when they are used, and the names identifying parts of all of the management information are organized in several application specific management information bases, each in the form of a respective hierarchical tree structure and managed objects in different management information trees are related.
Claim 20
Dependent Claim
24 words
A network element according to claim 10, wherein the relations between managed object instances are represented by an attribute with a globally distinguished name.
Claim 21
Dependent Claim
54 words
A network element according to claim 10, wherein the relations between managed object instances in different management information trees, as seen from the operations system, are represented by an attribute referring to a management tree unique name for the object instance in the respective management information tree and identifying the other management information tree.
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