公开(公告)号：US20110167418A1

公开(公告)日：2011-07-07

申请号：US13048018

申请日：2011-03-15

申请人： Niraj Gopal ,  Jiong Sun ,  Sai V. Ramamoorthy ,  David D. Ward

发明人： Niraj Gopal ,  Jiong Sun ,  Sai V. Ramamoorthy ,  David D. Ward

IPC分类号： G06F9/44 ,  G06F15/16

CPC分类号： G06F8/68 ,  G06F8/658

摘要： A method and apparatus for configuring an element management system server (an EMS server) to support new network element service application versions without upgrading the EMS server software is provided. The EMS stores base version data that describes the data model of a first version of a service application installed on a network element. When a second version of the service application is available, incremental version data describing changes to the data model from the first version to the second version is obtained and stored. In response to receiving a client request involving a service application on a particular network element, the EMS may apply incremental version data, associated with the version of the service application installed on the particular network element, to the base version data to form merged version data that describes the data model of the version of the service application installed on the particular network element.

摘要翻译： 提供了一种用于配置元素管理系统服务器（EMS服务器）以支持新的网元服务应用版本而不升级EMS服务器软件的方法和装置。 EMS存储基本版本数据，其描述安装在网络元件上的服务应用的第一版本的数据模型。 当服务应用程序的第二版本可用时，获取并存储描述从第一版本到第​​二版本的数据模型更改的增量版本数据。 响应于接收到涉及特定网络元件上的服务应用的客户端请求，EMS可以将与安装在特定网络元件上的服务应用的版本相关联的增量版本数据应用到基本版本数据，以形成合并版本数据 它描述了安装在特定网络元件上的服务应用程序版本的数据模型。

公开(公告)号：US08887147B2

公开(公告)日：2014-11-11

申请号：US13048018

申请日：2011-03-15

申请人： Niraj Gopal ,  Jiong Sun ,  Sai V. Ramamoorthy ,  David D. Ward

发明人： Niraj Gopal ,  Jiong Sun ,  Sai V. Ramamoorthy ,  David D. Ward

IPC分类号： G06F9/44

CPC分类号： G06F8/68 ,  G06F8/658

摘要： A method and apparatus for configuring an element management system server (an EMS server) to support new network element service application versions without upgrading the EMS server software is provided. The EMS stores base version data that describes the data model of a first version of a service application installed on a network element. When a second version of the service application is available, incremental version data describing changes to the data model from the first version to the second version is obtained and stored. In response to receiving a client request involving a service application on a particular network element, the EMS may apply incremental version data, associated with the version of the service application installed on the particular network element, to the base version data to form merged version data that describes the data model of the version of the service application installed on the particular network element.

摘要翻译： 提供了一种用于配置元素管理系统服务器（EMS服务器）以支持新的网元服务应用版本而不升级EMS服务器软件的方法和装置。 EMS存储基本版本数据，其描述安装在网络元件上的服务应用的第一版本的数据模型。 当服务应用程序的第二版本可用时，获取并存储描述从第一版本到第​​二版本的数据模型更改的增量版本数据。 响应于接收到涉及特定网络元件上的服务应用的客户端请求，EMS可以将与安装在特定网络元件上的服务应用的版本相关联的增量版本数据应用到基本版本数据，以形成合并版本数据 它描述了安装在特定网络元件上的服务应用程序版本的数据模型。

公开(公告)号：US07926033B2

公开(公告)日：2011-04-12

申请号：US11139065

申请日：2005-05-27

申请人： Niraj Gopal ,  Jiong Sun ,  Sai V. Ramamoorthy ,  David D. Ward

发明人： Niraj Gopal ,  Jiong Sun ,  Sai V. Ramamoorthy ,  David D. Ward

IPC分类号： G06F9/44 ,  G06F9/445 ,  G06F15/177 ,  G06F15/173

CPC分类号： G06F8/68 ,  G06F8/658

摘要： A method and apparatus for configuring an element management system server (an EMS server) to support new network element service application versions without upgrading the EMS server software is provided. The EMS stores base version data that describes the data model of a first version of a service application installed on a network element. When a second version of the service application is available, incremental version data describing changes to the data model from the first version to the second version is obtained and stored. In response to receiving a client request involving a service application on a particular network element, the EMS may apply incremental version data, associated with the version of the service application installed on the particular network element, to the base version data to form merged version data that describes the data model of the version of the service application installed on the particular network element.

摘要翻译： 提供了一种用于配置元素管理系统服务器（EMS服务器）以支持新的网元服务应用版本而不升级EMS服务器软件的方法和装置。 EMS存储基本版本数据，其描述安装在网络元件上的服务应用的第一版本的数据模型。 当服务应用程序的第二版本可用时，获取并存储描述从第一版本到第​​二版本的数据模型更改的增量版本数据。 响应于接收到涉及特定网络元件上的服务应用的客户端请求，EMS可以将与安装在特定网络元件上的服务应用的版本相关联的增量版本数据应用到基本版本数据，以形成合并版本数据 它描述了安装在特定网络元件上的服务应用程序版本的数据模型。

公开(公告)号：US07660882B2

公开(公告)日：2010-02-09

申请号：US10866067

申请日：2004-06-10

申请人： Jiong Sun ,  Niraj Gopal ,  Satyanarayana Raju ,  Sai V. Ramamoorthy ,  Prasad Yerneni ,  David D. Ward

发明人： Jiong Sun ,  Niraj Gopal ,  Satyanarayana Raju ,  Sai V. Ramamoorthy ,  Prasad Yerneni ,  David D. Ward

IPC分类号： G06F13/00

CPC分类号： H04L41/5054 ,  H04L41/0806 ,  H04L41/0843

摘要： A method and apparatus for deploying EMS provisioning services is provided. A communication to administer a particular service on a network element is transmitted from an EMS client to an EMS server. The communication contains service data that describes a particular service to be administered on the network element. The EMS server constructs an instance of a generic record that stores the service data. The EMS server selects a service module to process the instance based on which service is associated with the service data stored in the instance. The instance is processed to produce result data that describes the result of processing the service data at the network element. The EMS server stores the result data in a persistent store. This generic framework enables communications between EMS clients and the EMS server involving different services to be processed similarly. New services are added without modification to the generic framework.

摘要翻译： 提供了一种部署EMS配置服务的方法和装置。 用于管理网元上的特定服务的通信从EMS客户端发送到EMS服务器。 该通信包含描述要在网络元件上管理的特定服务的服务数据。 EMS服务器构建存储服务数据的通用记录的实例。 EMS服务器根据哪个服务与实例中存储的服务数据相关联，选择服务模块来处理该实例。 处理该实例以产生描述在网络元件处理服务数据的结果的结果数据。 EMS服务器将结果数据存储在持久存储中。 该通用框架使EMS客户机和涉及不同服务的EMS服务器之间的通信能够被类似地处理。 添加新服务而不修改通用框架。

公开(公告)号：US06351770B1

公开(公告)日：2002-02-26

申请号：US09449030

申请日：1999-11-24

申请人： Yu-Hsien Li ,  Sai V. Ramamoorthy

发明人： Yu-Hsien Li ,  Sai V. Ramamoorthy

IPC分类号： H04M342

CPC分类号： H04L41/5054 ,  H04L41/5048

摘要： An automated method and apparatus for classifying a customer service activation request (SAR) according to whether repeatable, schedulable, or scaleable elements are present. When the request has no repeating elements, a traditional SAR is forwarded and serviced by the network management system according to provisions well-known in the art. In the more complex case, however, a SAR comprises elements that are both repeatable and schedulable and is thus classified as a service activation module (SAM). An automated process first determines the starting quality of service (QoS) level at the beginning of the service life cycle requested by the customer. The process next determines the life cycle ending time as well as the trigger times at which elements repeat or are reinitiated. In some embodiments of the present invention, the SAM is examined for resource availability. If one or more resources are not available during the service life cycle, the process generates a report. In a further alternate embodiment, a set of templates representing various QoS levels are constructed and modified to reflect the fact that certain services are not available. If all resources are available, the elements of the SAM are transmitted to a well-known provisioning process for fulfillment. The present invention thus provides faster and more reliable service provisioning for extremely complex, time-dependent SARs including repeating sub-elements and the necessary scaling to enable expansion and enhancement of customer service.

摘要翻译： 存在根据可重复性，可调度或可扩展元素来分类客户服务激活请求（SAR）的自动化方法和装置。 当请求没有重复元素时，根据本领域公知的规定，传统的SAR由网络管理系统转发和服务。 然而，在更复杂的情况下，SAR包括可重复和可调度的元素，并且因此被分类为服务激活模块（SAM）。 自动化过程首先确定客户要求的服务生命周期开始时的起始服务质量（QoS）水平。 该过程接下来确定生命周期结束时间以及元素重复或重新启动的触发时间。 在本发明的一些实施例中，检查SAM的资源可用性。 如果一个或多个资源在服务生命周期中不可用，则该进程将生成报告。 在另一替代实施例中，构成和修改代表各种QoS级别的一组模板以反映某些服务不可用的事实。 如果所有资源都可用，则将SAM的元素传输到众所周知的供应过程以实现。 因此，本发明为非常复杂的时间依赖SAR（包括重复子元素）和必要的扩展提供更快更可靠的服务提供，以实现客户服务的扩展和增强。

公开(公告)号：US06738758B1

公开(公告)日：2004-05-18

申请号：US09449142

申请日：1999-11-24

申请人： Yu-Hsien Li ,  Sai V. Ramamoorthy

发明人： Yu-Hsien Li ,  Sai V. Ramamoorthy

IPC分类号： G06F1730

CPC分类号： H04L41/5054 ,  H04L41/22 ,  Y10S707/99933 ,  Y10S707/99937

摘要： A method for decomposing a service activation request (SAR) into sub-requests for specific network resources and classifying the SAR with an adaptive bucket value based on the dynamic performance characteristics of the corresponding network resources. Each SAR has a virtual bucket value whose size is determined by the bucket values of its constituent sub-requests. Over time, as multiple SARs are processed, the bucket values associated with each requested resource are adjusted to reflect system resource loading and availability. If the bucket value of a constituent sub-request is adaptively decreased down to a zero value, for instance due to an overflow condition or an excess of requests for that particular service, any new SAR requesting the same resource will be prevented from decomposition and processing. This will happen even if the sub-request is mature, i.e., due to be executed in the very near-term. This mechanism insures optimal utilization of network resources and provides an efficient, automated handling mechanism for processing complex service activation requests.

摘要翻译： 一种将服务激活请求（SAR）分解为特定网络资源的子请求并基于相应网络资源的动态性能特征对自适应桶值进行分类的方法。 每个SAR具有虚拟桶值，其大小由其组成子请求的桶值确定。 随着时间的推移，随着多个SAR的处理，与每个请求的资源相关联的桶值被调整以反映系统资源的负载和可用性。 如果构成子请求的桶值自适应地降低到零值，例如由于溢出条件或对特定服务的请求过多，则将防止请求相同资源的任何新的SAR分解和处理 。 即使子请求成熟，即由于在非常短期内被执行，这也将发生。 这种机制确保了网络资源的最佳利用，并提供了一种处理复杂服务激活请求的有效的自动化处理机制。