Patent ID: 6721735
Filing Date: 2004-04-13
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
In a telecommunications management system comprising an inventory manager and a provisioning manager, said inventory manager including an inventory database comprising a plurality of data fields associated with respective network elements within a network to be managed, said provisioning manager including a provisioning database comprising a plurality of data fields associated with said respective network elements to be managed, with respect to communication links between said network elements used to provision circuits, a method of synchronizing the databases comprising:detecting a change to at least one of said data fields associated with said respective network elements in any of the database based on a first set of parameters, wherein said first set of parameters comprises at least one of a deletion of an element, an addition of said element, and a substitution of said element; notifying a controller of the change; and updating, according to the detected change, other database in said network containing the respective database record in response to a determination that said change falls within a second parameter, wherein the said second parameter further comprises a detection of a change outside a normal workflow in any of said first plurality of databases.