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US6018567A Expired / Lapsed US ⏱️ 0.0 years remaining

Maintenance operations console for an advanced intelligent network

Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc
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Filing: 1998-02-26
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Granted: 2000-01-25
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Expires: 2018-02-26
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Abstract

Abstract An arrangement for monitoring operations of advanced intelligent network (AIN) elements of a public switched telephone network by transporting standardized network management messages across a data network. A maintenance and operations console (MOC) sends and receives Simplified Network Management Protocol (SNMP) objects from AIN elements such as an Intelligent Peripheral (IP) via a packet switched network using a standardized transport protocol such as TCP/IP. The IP includes an error monitoring system that collects error messages and generates an error status report. An SNMP agent internal to the IP converts the error status report to SNMP objects outputs the SNMP objects onto the packet switched network. The MOC receives the SNMP objects, assigns an operational priority to the SNMP objects, and displays the operational priority of the received SNMP objects based on object relationships identified by a Management Information Base (MIB). The MOC outputs SNMP objects identifying corrective measures in accordance with user selection inputs and the object relationships identified by the MIB. The MOC of the present invention provides flexible monitoring of AIN elements at different locations based on the use of SNMP object base, and accommodates changes to the AIN based on the received MIB objects.

Inventors

  • 👤 Scott P. Dulman

Bibliographic Details

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Jurisdiction US
Data Source google_patents
Last Synchronized 2026-10-29 00:21
CPC Classifications
H; H04; H04Q; H04Q3/00; H04Q3/0016; H04Q3/0029; H04M; H04M3/00; H04M3/22; H04M3/2254; H04M7/00; H04M7/12; H04Q2213/00; H04Q2213/13345; H04Q2213/13505; H04Q2213/13546

Claims Analysis

Total Claims: 5
Claim 1
Independent Claim 198 words
In an advanced intelligent network (AIN) comprising a plurality of AIN elements providing call processing functions in a public switched telephone network and a data network providing operations messages between the AIN elements, wherein each of said AIN elements includes an operating software subsystem, an application software subsystem performing a call processing function, a communication subsystem sending and receiving operations messages to and from said each AIN element via a standardized transport protocol, and a monitoring subsystem identifying errors in each of the subsystems of said each AIN element, a maintenance and operations console (MOC) coupled to said plurality of AIN elements via a data communication network for monitoring said plurality of AIN elements, said MOC comprising: an alarm management module for receiving and organizing alarms from the plurality of AIN elements in response to the application subsystem of an AIN element sending an alarm and an operational priority of the alarm; a topology map module for organizing the alarms received by said alarm module for display on a graphic user interface; and a failover/recovery system for performing corrective countermeasures by outputting correction commands to different AIN elements in response to detected alarms from the alarm management module.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim 198 words
In an advanced intelligent network (AIN) comprising a plurality of AIN elements providing call processing functions in a public switched telephone network and a data network providing operations messages between the AIN elements, wherein each of said AIN elements includes an operating software subsystem, an application software subsystem performing a call processing function, a communication subsystem sending and receiving operations messages to and from said each AIN element via a standardized transport protocol, and a monitoring subsystem identifying errors in each of the subsystems of said each AIN element, a maintenance and operations console (MOC) coupled to said plurality of AIN elements via a data communication network for monitoring said plurality of AIN elements, said MOC comprising: an alarm management module for receiving and organizing alarms from the plurality of AIN elements in response to the application subsystem of an AIN element sending an alarm and an operational priority of the alarm; a topology map module for organizing the alarms received by said alarm module for display on a graphic user interface; and a failover/recovery system for performing corrective countermeasures by outputting correction commands to different AIN elements in response to detected alarms from the alarm management module.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim 23 words
The MOC of claim 1, wherein said failover/recovery system is further responsive to selected inputs from a user at the graphic user interface.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim 29 words
The MOC of claim 1, further comprising: a simplified network management protocol (SNMP) network management application for executing the monitoring, detection, and correction of alarms in the AIN network.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim 31 words
The MOC of claim 3, further comprising: an operating system server for supporting the functions of said alarm management module, said topology module, said failover/recovery system, and said network management application.

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