Patent ID: 6115743
Filing Date: 2000-09-05
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
In a telecommunications network having telecommunications network devices, each telecommunications network device having a device-specific communication format for communicating via the telecommunications network, a telecommunications network monitoring and management system comprising:a processor configured to execute telecommunications network monitoring and management processes, the processor configured to access the telecommunications network and data networks for process communications;a plurality of device interface processes including telecommunications network analysis, restoration, and maintenance processes configured to execute on the processor, each device interface process configured to communicate with one of the telecommunications network devices and with a graphical server process of the telecommunications network monitoring and management processes, the device interface processes configured to translate communications between a communications format of the graphical server process and a device-specific communications format of one of the telecommunications network devices, the graphical server process configured to communicate with the telecommunications network devices via the device interface processes; andgraphical interface processes configured to communicate with the graphical server process via the internal communications process and with user terminals via the data network wherein communications are exchanged between the user terminals and the telecommunications network monitoring and management processes and between the user terminals and the telecommunications network devices.