Telecommunications – Radiotelephone system – Zoned or cellular telephone system
Reexamination Certificate
1998-11-09
2001-04-03
Bost, Dwayne D. (Department: 2744)
Telecommunications
Radiotelephone system
Zoned or cellular telephone system
C455S424000, C455S561000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06212376
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates generally to cellular communication systems and, in particular, to methods for inhibiting and allowing alarm handling in a digital cellular system.
2. Description of the Related Art
The prior art of the present field includes a method for providing an alarm to a manager (i.e., administrator) after recognizing the alarm. However, a method is not disclosed in the prior art to prevent or inhibit an alarm which does not have to be provided to an administrator. Rather, the prior art discloses a function for preventing the digital cellular system from working and for providing alarm data to an upper system, when an alarm has been initiated. However, this function was implemented as a hardware method and not a software method. Further, the prior art does not include a method performed by an upper alarm handling block for handling an alarm which is frequently active due to an inadequate hardware configuration or system instability.
As a result of the above described inconvenience, whenever the notice inhibition occurred through graphic data or a message window, the administrator had to inhibit the corresponding alarm by modifying the program, and then re-compiling the program in order to locate the generated execution file in the base station manager (BSM).
A function disclosed in the prior art and referred to as an inhibit alarm message (INH-ALM-MSG) only inhibits the display to the message window. The display is informed concurrently to the administrator and the statistics storing the graphic data, the audible alarm, the occurrence number of the alarm, and the results of the occurrence of the alarm.
Some of the problems with the prior art methods and systems will now be described. First, when an alarm occurs frequently and is cleared, messages regarding the occurrence and clearing of the alarm are displayed via the message window while an audible alarm continues ringing. This makes it difficult for the administrator to find other problems. Second, whenever the administrator requested that the developer inhibit the corresponding alarm handling, the developer had to modify the program or control the hardware. The frequent modification of the program and the application of various execution files to the system on a case-by-case basis rendered the management of the program a difficult task for the developer. Third, the allowance of an inhibited alarm handling required the same amount of work as the inhibition of the alarm handling, thereby causing severe inconvenience. Fourth, cognizance of the procedure for inhibiting alarm handling was not easily ascertainable by the administrator and the developer. The developer had to manage all the situations which arose on a case-by-case basis. Therefore, the administrator and the developer had to endure the inconvenience and difficulties of managing the system and the program. Fifth, the INH-ALM-MSG only inhibits the simultaneous display of alarm messages to the message window, rather than whole or complete alarm handling. Accordingly, it would be desirable and highly advantageous for a method to be provided that displays alarm handling information in the administrator's command language to enable the administrator and the developer to easily manage the system and the program, respectively.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
It is an object of the present invention to provide a method for displaying alarm handling information in the administrator's command language to enable the administrator and the developer to easily manage the system and the program, respectively.
In one aspect of the invention, a method for inhibiting alarm handling in a digital cellular system comprises the steps of: inputting an Inhibit Alarm On/Off (INH-ALM-ONOFF) command in a base station manager (BSM); setting up the range of the system to inhibit alarm handling; setting up the type of alarm to be inhibited; checking an option of inputted variables corresponding to said steps of setting up the range and the type of the alarm; checking a state of equipment of program loaded data (PLD) to determine whether or not a component group or components groups of the digital cellular system corresponding to the range is in use; determining whether or not the alarm has occurred; reducing counts by as many times as occurrences of the alarm and clearing the alarm, when the alarm has occurred; determining whether or not the alarm is performed with an Inhibit Alarm Message (INH-ALM-MSG); displaying a “clear” message, when the alarm is not performed with the INH-ALM-MSG; recovering graphic data located at a position where the alarm has occurred by updating the graphic data; and storing a result to which the INH-ALM-ONOFF command is applied to a file to display the result when a Display Alarm On/Off (DIS-ALM-ONOFF) command is performed.
These and other objects, features and advantages of the present invention will become apparent from the following detailed description of illustrative embodiments thereof, which is to be read in connection with the accompanying drawings, where the same reference numerals are used to represent the same functional elements.
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Hong Seok-Joo
Moon Jeong-Yong
Bost Dwayne D.
Dilworth & Barrese LLP
Samsung Electronics Co,. Ltd.
Vu Quang
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