Patent ID: 7403986

Claim:
A method for synchronizing circuit related objects between a network management system (NMS) and a network control processor (NCP), the method comprising: maintaining data for circuit related objects at the network control processor; receiving at the network control processor one or more commands from the network management system to translate the data for the circuit related objects; translating the data for the circuit related objects from binary data to ASCII data in the network control processor in response to the commands, wherein the ASCII data comprises an ASCII persistence table; receiving into the network management system the ASCII data from the network control processor; parsing the ASCII persistence table at the network management system; and storing data obtained from the ASCII persistence table in a network management system database comprising one or more records relating to individual circuits for which data is maintained at the network control processor, wherein data for the circuit related objects stored in the network management system database is thereby synchronized with the data for the circuit related objects in the network control processor.