Patent ID: 6687747
Filing Date: 2004-02-03
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
A process of providing access control of signaling services and operation oriented common signaling information services for supporting a plurality of different types of network distributed signaling functions in a network, the process comprising the steps of:instantiating a class of network objects in a plurality of network entities forming a community, each of said network entities having at least one of said network objects of said class, said class of network objects for modeling a corresponding one of the network distributed signaling functions; and providing a transparent operation oriented interface between said network objects of said network entities of said community to enable interoperations between said network objects, said interface being provided by providing an operation oriented semantic independent signaling protocol entity in each of said network entities, said protocol entities providing object interoperations in control applications, each said protocol entity including a plurality of signaling applications operative to provide procedures for implementing said information services, each said protocol entity generating signaling protocol messages in response to primitives and associated parameters received from network objects, providing a signaling protocol engine including a protocol data unit layer for packaging said primitives and associated parameters to create said signaling protocol messages, and transmitting said signaling layer protocol messages between said signaling protocol entities via the network; and creating a management information base for common interoperation service, said management information base having a collection of attributes of managed objects in the network, each of said managed objects being mapped to a corresponding network object by public attributes of said corresponding network object, and wherein each of said network objects includes external methods for accessing managed objects associated with other ones of said network objects via said interface, said external methods being operative to perform network operations, and also being operative to invoke the performance of network operations by other network objects in said community, said network objects reflecting behaviors of said network entities and said interoperations between said network entities.