Patent ID: 7246327

Claim:
A computer-implemented method for providing an interactive, menu-driven interface to a cellular site information database comprising cell site data, the method comprising: receiving a form name input corresponding to a type of cell site data stored in the cellular site information database associated with a plurality of forms, wherein the plurality of forms include a plurality of fields and wherein the form name input is chosen from one of the following: a control channel, cell, trunk group and trunk member, wherein the control channel carries a control signal including a cellular transmission frequency; in response to receiving the form name input, displaying on a display device one of the plurality of forms on which the type of cell site data corresponding to the received form name input is stored, wherein the plurality of fields of the displayed one of the plurality of forms are blank; after displaying the one of the plurality of forms on which the type of cell site data corresponding to the received form name input is stored, receiving a value in one of the plurality of blank fields, wherein the value corresponds to a cellular site; generating a plurality of queries to retrieve the type of cell site data corresponding to the form name input for the cellular site corresponding to the received value from the cellular site information database; sending the plurality of queries to the cellular site information database; receiving the type of cell site data corresponding to the form name input for the cellular site corresponding to the received value from the cellular site information database; displaying the type of cell site data corresponding to the form name input for the cellular site corresponding to the received value from the cellular site information database in the plurality of blank fields of the displayed one of the plurality of forms; receiving user input editing the data in at least one of the plurality of fields; generating commands corresponding to the user input to edit the data; and sending the commands to the cellular site information database to edit the data.