Boots – shoes – and leggings
Patent
1995-12-07
1998-03-17
Harrity, John E.
Boots, shoes, and leggings
36424294, 364DIG1, G06F 1314
Patent
active
057296880
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a system for controlling, maintaining and managing network elements consisting of an exchange, a telecommunication line and so on.
2. Background of the Invention
In general, a telecommunication network is made up of network elements such as an exchange, a switching office, a subscriber's line, a transmission line, a power supply equipment and the like, and a system for maintaining and managing those network elements.
The system for maintaining and managing the network elements is comprised of a manager system for integrally managing a plurality of network elements and an agent system for maintaining the respective network elements.
The agent system is provided with a function for executing the monitoring, examination, control, fault-restoration, equipment operation, etc. of the respective network elements in accordance with an instruction from the manager system. The agent system is further provided with a function for collecting and storing the operation histories of the respective network elements under monitoring or examination and for notifying the manager system of those operation histories.
On the other hand, in a communication processing (service control) such as setting or releasing of a path, there is a technique for separating an exchange function and a service control function as in an intelligent network. In the technique, the service control system forwards an instruction to an exchange system so that the exchange system provides a required service.
However, the maintaining/managing system is independent from the service control system, to thereby require a communication device every system. Moreover, this causes both the systems to reserve and manage data relating to the network elements and the like.
Further, in recent years, the rising expectation that the communication service is highly developed requires service control (or maintenance/management) based on information relating to both of the maintenance/management and service control. However, the independence of the maintenance/management system from the service control system makes it difficult to mutually refer to information.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
An object of the present invention is to provide a technique effective in realizing common device or data and a complicated and highly advanced service due to mutual cooperation.
In order to solve the foregoing problem, the present invention provides a system for controlling, maintaining and managing network elements such as an exchange and a telecommunication line in which an interface between a manager system and an agent system is made common to an interface between a service control system for a communication service and an exchange system. With this structure, the system of the invention allows the common interface to perform the service control and the maintenance/management.
In other words, a network element managing system of the present invention includes managing means and agent means, in which the manager means serves as a system for allowing the network elements to execute service control and maintenance/management through the agent means.
In detail, the manager means includes a function for issuing a communication processing request in addition to a function for issuing a processing request relating to the maintenance, operation and management of network elements.
According to such a structure of the manager means, the agent means includes a function for controlling a communication processing of the network elements in addition to a function for executing the maintenance, operation and management of the network elements such as an exchange and a telecommunication line.
The agent means further includes a scheduling function for discriminating a processing relating to maintenance, operation and management and a communication processing, and for executing the communication processing in precedence to the processing relating to maintenance, operation and management, for executing the commun
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Fukazawa Mitsunori
Fukuda Ken-ichi
Kim Moowan
Matsumoto Shin-ichi
Ushiki Kazumasa
Fujitsu Limited
Harrity John E.
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