Patent ID: 6088434
Filing Date: 2000-07-11
Classification: H04Q

Abstract:
A method of communicating provisioning information between a user of a telecommunications system and a database in a telecommunications system, the database having a plurality of tables, the method comprising the steps of:establishing a connection with a telecommunications node, the telecommunications node having a generic provisioning unit, the generic provisioning unit operable to receive provisioning commands in a generic provisioning protocol from the user and translate the provisioning commands into a format understandable by the database;transmitting a configuration message to the generic provisioning unit, the configuration message identifying the database;transmitting the content of the configuration message from the generic provisioning unit to the database;transmitting a provisioning message to the generic provisioning unit, the provisioning message specifying the type of provisioning message that is transmitted and including a database command, the database command being according to a standard query language, the database command specifying a name associated with a table in the database and also specifying a database operation;translating the provisioning commands, by the generic provisioning unit, into a format understandable by the database to generate a translated provisioning message;transmitting the translated provisioning message in the generic provisioning protocol to the database to provision the database; andwherein the step of translating the database command, by the generic provisioning unit, occurs independent of the table structure of the table in the database, thereby allowing provisioning of new telecommunications services without modification of the generic provisioning unit.