Patent ID: 7693513

Claim:
A method comprising: provisioning, by an element management system (EMS) of a network management system (NMS), a service flow context associated with a subscriber in a service database, said provisioning of the service flow context to activate broadband services of a Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMax) network for the subscriber; receiving, by the EMS, a first SNMP trap from an SNMP proxy on a serving base station, the first SNMP trap including a media access control (MAC) address of a mobile subscriber station (MSS) associated with the subscriber, to indicate the MSS has registered with the serving base station, transmitting, by the EMS, a first SNMP set message, including the service flow context, to the serving base station to enable the serving base station to establish a connection with the MSS based on the service flow context; receiving, by the EMS, a second SNMP trap from the SNMP proxy on the serving base station, the second SNMP trap including the MAC address of the MSS and a target base station identifier identifying a target base station to succeed in serving the established connection of the MSS; identifying, by the EMS in the service database, the service flow context based on the MAC address of the MSS; transmitting, by the EMS, a second SNMP set message, including the service flow context, to a proxy SNMP agent of the target base station remotely disposed from the NMS and the MSS to enable a transferring of the established connection to the target base station, transmitting, by the EMS, a message to the MSS through the serving base station, to indicate that the service flow context has been transmitted to the target base station to enable the MSS to register with the target base station, wherein the transmitting of the second SNMP set message is completed before the MSS registers with the target base station; and retrieving, by the NMS in accordance with a simple network management protocol, parameters associated with the connection from the MSS to enable the NMS to manage the MSS, wherein the parameters are retrieved via the SNMP proxy of the target base station that converts commands from the first SNMP protocol to a second protocol, the SNMP protocol being incompatible with the MSS.