Patent ID: 7054873
Filing Date: 2006-05-30
Classification: H04L,H04M,H04Q,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A resource handler for use in an operational support structure for managing a telecommunications network, the resource handler comprising a service and resource database arrangement containing information regarding network resources, wherein the database arrangement is structured so that each resource in the network has a time of existence as well as a place in a hierarchy of parent/child relations, and each resource being defined by data comprising: a point identifier that has characteristics associated to it, representing an abstract description of the resources capabilities; an abstraction of a common network element represented by a group of points that are considered to belong together; and a connection being defined by two connected points; wherein the database arrangement is structured so as to model a usage view, which includes what resources are combined to form a complete service instance and the time when that service instance exists.