Patent ID: 6574661
Filing Date: 2003-06-03
Classification: G06F,G06Q,H04L,H04M,Y10S

Abstract:
An interactive Web/Internet based network management system for enabling configuration of a customer's telecommunications network via an integrated interface, said system comprising:a client browser application located at a client workstation for enabling interactive Web based communications with said network management system, said client workstation identified with a customer and providing said integrated interface; at least one secure server for managing client sessions over the Internet, said secure server supporting a secure connection enabling encrypted communication between said client browser application and said secure server; a network configuration system for maintaining an inventory of a customer's telecommunications network call routing plans and associated plan details, and interfacing with network control elements for configuring a customer's telecommunications network according to a desired call routing plan; and, a network manager in communication with said secure server for receiving customer directives communicated over said secure connection via the client browser application, said directives including a request to access call routing plan details according to a selected plan, and downloading said call routing plans details including a call routing tree to customers over said secure communications link for visual presentation at said client workstation.