Patent ID: 7116759
Filing Date: 2006-10-03
Classification: H04M

Abstract:
1. A method for facilitating the analysis of ALIT data, said method comprising: receiving an electronic version of ALIT test results; parsing said ALIT test results to extract error data; inserting said error data into an ALIT database, wherein said ALIT database includes one record for each exception located in said error data and each said record includes a wire center attribute, an exception date attribute, a facility number attribute, a cable attribute, a pair attribute, and a repair package attribute, a maintenance analyst name attribute, a trouble message attribute, a telephone number attribute, a tea attribute and a test result attribute; calculating a number of exceptions per wire center occurring on a selected summary date in response to receiving a summary request from a user including said selected summary date, wherein input to said calculating is said selected summary date and said ALIT database; transmitting to said user the number of exceptions per wire center occurring on said summary date in response to said calculating; transmitting to said user records located in said ALIT database that include a selected wire center and a selected detail date in response to receiving from said user a wire center detail request including said selected wire center and said selected detail date; and updating said ALIT database with repair package information in response to receiving an add repair package request, wherein said add repair package request includes a wire center, a facility, a cable, an exception date, a repair package number, a low pair and a high pair.