Patent ID: 7882211
Filing Date: 2011-02-01
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for operating a management system of a communication system having at least a manager and an agent, comprising: storing, by the agent, information about management functions that may be executed between the manager and the agent; receiving, by the manager, encoded identification information from a device which has previously executed an encoding method unknown to the manager on first identification information for at least one of the management functions and on second identification information for one of the manager and the communication system, the encoded identification information being an encoded form of the first identification information and the second identification information; requesting, by the manager via a request message, management function information from the agent about the at least one of the management functions which may be executed between the manager and the agent, the request message including the encoded identification information; decoding, by the agent, the encoded identification information of the one of the manager and the communication system; and transmitting, from the agent to the manager, a response message containing the management function information, requested by the request message, exclusively relating to the at least one of the management functions indicated in the request message by the encoded identification information.