Communications network having management system architecture supporting reuse

Patent 6233610 Issued on May 15, 2001. Estimated Expiration Date:

August 27, 2017. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.

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Inventors

Assignee

Northern Telecom Limited

Application

No. 921208 filed on 08/27/1997

US Classes:

709/223, COMPUTER NETWORK MANAGING719/315, Object oriented message719/316Managed object system

Examiners

Primary: Dinh, Dung C.

Attorney, Agent or Firm

Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C.

Foreign Patent References

0585082A2 EP 08/13/1993
0 585 052 A1 EP 03/13/1994
0695100A2 EP 01/13/1996
2308779 GB 07/13/1997
WO 95/23469 WO 08/13/1995
WO 95/34974 WO 12/13/1995
Wo 95/34975 WO 12/13/1995
WO 95/34856 WO 12/13/1995

International Class

G06F 015/177

Abstract

A communications network, eg a distributed network, comprises a plurality of distributed physical resources in the form of components, assemblies of components, and systems based on components and composites. A network management system of such a network comprises an application level which represents the functionality of a plurality of different composites being hardware and/or software components of different proprietary manufacture and different function capability, and an implementation level which implements control of the composites. The application level is sub-divided into a plurality of application level elements each of which correspond to a function capability of a composite or system, a system being a highest level of composite. The implementation level is sub-divided into a plurality of implementation level elements each of which represents a system, a composite or a component. The internal structure of the elements within the application controller and implementation level corresponds to internal architectures of the systems and composites. As the communications network is assembled from a plurality of different components and composites, the network management system can also be assembled using predetermined constructions of composite controllers and component controllers which correspond to specific composites or specific components within those composites.

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