Patent ID: 8839114
Filing Date: 2014-09-16
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A computer program embodied on a non-transitory computer readable medium, comprising: computer code for identifying a model of an actual state of a network; computer code for identifying a model of planned changes to the network; computer code for synchronizing the model of the actual state of the network and the model of the planned changes to the network to identify differences between the model of the actual state of the network and the model of the planned changes to the network, where the synchronizing includes: computer code for generating a graphical representation of a variant model associated with the network, utilizing the differences between the model of the actual state of the network and the model of the planned changes to the network, the variant model including the model of the actual state of the network with the identified differences between the model of the actual state of the network and the model of the planned changes to the network; computer code for providing, to a user, the graphical representation of the variant model including the model of the actual state of the network with the identified differences between the model of the actual state of the network and the model of the planned changes to the network; computer code for determining, utilizing the graphical representation of the variant model, that an operational context of the model of the actual state of the network is without an aspect of operation present in the model of the planned changes to the network; and computer code for, in response to the determination that the operational context of the model of the actual state of the network is without the aspect of operation present in the model of the planned changes to the network, creating a first plan and copying a portion of the model of the planned changes to the network to the first plan.