Patent ID: 7099865

Claim:
In a wireless telecommunications system, a method of synchronizing configuring data, which is utilized for proper operation of a base station and is stored in a base station database with corresponding configuring data stored in one or more source units each unit having a database for storing configuring data, the base station database and the source unit databases each being arranged in a single data group or a plurality of data groups within each database, the method comprising the steps of: calculating a reference checksum for each of the data groups in the base station database and the source unit database, wherein the data groups in the base station database correspond with the data groups in the one or more source units: monitoring all base station data groups; comparing a calculated checksum of each data group in the base station database to the reference checksum of each corresponding data group in the one or more source units; and requesting a copy of the base station data group for which a mismatch is found, to be downloaded to the base station database from the corresponding one or more source units upon detecting a mismatch between the corresponding one or more source units data group's reference checksum and the corresponding calculated checksum.