Patent ID: 9503922
Filing Date: 2016-11-22
CPC Classification: H04W

Claim Text:
1. A communication network maintenance system, comprising: a network equipment inventory non-transitory data store, wherein the network equipment inventory non-transitory data store comprises information about cell tower equipment items; at least one processor; a non-transitory memory; a command builder application stored in the non-transitory memory that, when executed by the at least one processor, receives an abstract command identifying a maintenance operation and identifying a cell tower that the maintenance operation is to be performed on, wherein the abstract command is received from one of an alarm system, a network operations center (NOC) user interface, and a performance monitor, looks up, in the network equipment inventory non-transitory data store, information about the cell tower identified in the abstract command, based on the looked up information, determines a specific command to execute on the cell tower, the execution using an element management system (EMS) associated with the cell tower, builds the specific command, the specific command including parameter values determined based at least in part on the looked up information, and places the specific command on a command execution queue; and a command executor application stored in the non-transitory memory that, when executed by the at least one processor, retrieves the specific command from the command execution queue, verifies a syntax of the specific command against the rules of the EMS associated with the specific command, checks that the specific command is authorized, establishes a communication link to the EMS associated with the specific command, and transmits the specific command to the EMS.