Patent ID: 6286035
Filing Date: 2001-09-04
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
A method of configuring and supporting command messages in a network that responds to command requests from a plurality of network elements each having an interface that communicates with an operations support system of the network, comprising the steps of:receiving at one of the plural network elements from the operations support system, through the interface of the one network element, a set of data that comprises a set of allowed parameters that will make up a potential command message;storing the received set of data in a memory at the one network element;generating at the one network element from the received set of data a potential command message which comprises a set of constituent parameters;parsing the potential command message generated at the network element into its constituent parameters;comparing each of the constituent parameters from the parsed potential command message to the set of allowed parameters in the memory and determining from said comparison whether each said constituent parameter is an allowed parameter; andpopulating a data structure at the one network element with all of the constituent parameters that have been determined to be allowed parameters.