Patent ID: 6381644
Filing Date: 2002-04-30
Classification: G06F,G06Q,H04L,H04M

Abstract:
A Web/Internet based telecommunications network management system for managing customer's outbound telecommunications network assets via a client browser application resident at a client workstation, said system comprising:at least one authentication secure server for managing secure client sessions over the Internet, said authentication server supporting a first secure socket connection enabling encrypted communication between said browser application client and said authentication secure server, said authentication secure server configured to validate said browser application client; a dispatch server for communicating with said authentication secure server through a first firewall over a second socket connection, said first firewall including port specific filtering routers, said first and second socket connections forming a secure communications link; at least one application secure server for communicating with said dispatch server through a second firewall, said at least one application server providing application services which may be requested by said browser application client, said first and second firewalls effectively forming an access restriction zone for preventing unauthorized access to said at least one application server; network configuration device for maintaining an inventory of a customer's outbound telecommunications network assets; and, outbound network manager for receiving customer directives communicated over said secure communications link, said directives including a request to access inventory pertaining to that customer's outbound network management assets, and downloading details of said outbound network management assets to customers over said secure communications link for visual presentation at said client workstation.