Patent ID: 7389333
Filing Date: 2008-06-17
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for provisioning a network element, comprising: providing a custom default file and a standard default file in a network element, the standard default file including uniform default parameters preset by a manufacturer of the network element, the custom default file comprising one or more default parameters of a same type as, but having a different value from, corresponding default parameters in the standard default file, wherein the default parameters are associated with commands used to provision the network element for a telecommunications service and wherein the default parameters of the custom default file are non-uniform parameters specific to a particular customer to which the network element is provided and are provided to the customer by the manufacturer with the network element; wherein the custom default file comprising default parameters of a type selected from a group consisting of threshold driven parameters and non-threshold parameters, the threshold driven parameters comprising a set of thresholds for a plurality of communication types, the non-threshold parameters comprising parameters associated with a category selected from a group consisting of allow and inhibit monitoring category, allow and inhibit COMM monitoring category, initialize monitoring category, set threshold T determining service parameters for the telecommunications service based on the uniform default parameters of the standard default file as modified by overriding default parameters of the custom default file that are specific to the particular customer; creating a configuration file that includes service parameters for the telecommunications service to be provided based on the default parameters of the standard default file as modified by overriding default parameters of the custom default file; and establishing the telecommunications service based on the service parameters included in the configuration file.