Patent ID: 8117294
Filing Date: 2012-02-14
Classification: H04L,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A management apparatus for managing a network equipment element comprising: a profile device including a memory adapted to receive a capabilities software object including a number of attributes, the capabilities software object offering capabilities of a corresponding physical process including a set of stop points, ones of the stop points associated with stop point properties, offered stop points determining points at which the corresponding physical process can be stopped and resumed, and adapted to receive a generation request for an instance of a profile software object and to profile the capabilities software object into at least one profile software object by selecting certain offered capabilities from the set of offered capabilities to provide a stop point list, the stop point list being checked to be valid if at least one selected stop point has a relevant stop list property in the capabilities software object, the at least one selected stop points determining at least one point at which the corresponding physical process is to stop, the profile software object having an attribute defining a network element type and a software version to which the profile software object is to apply which is applied to that profile software object instance and not to other profile software object instances; and a process device including a processor adapted to generate a process description of a physical process by using the at least one profile software object, where the process description generated is executable to control the physical process in accordance with the process description generated including at least one interruption of the physical process according to the at least one selected stop point.