Patent ID: 7461381

Claim:
A communications services network platform implemented on at least one processor and comprising an operations, administration, maintenance and provisioning (OAMP) system for facilitating communications processing by entities within the platform, the (OAMP) system comprising: a hierarchy of managed objects, each of the managed objects receiving input state information and defining a logical relation among the input state information and output state information, at least one of the managed objects comprising a state information server, the state information server outputting output state information that is received as input state information by at least one of the managed objects comprising a state information client; a state distributor system that identifies state information clients registered to receive a notification regarding changes to output state information and that notifies the identified state information clients of the changes to output state information; a registry that registers at least one specified managed object with the state distributor system so that the at least one specified managed object receives, as input state information, specified output state information, the at least one specified managed object becoming a state information client upon receipt of the specified output state information; and a response system that determines whether output state information has changed for each of the managed objects and that sends a transition message to the state distributor system indicating the change, wherein the entities comprise at least one communications processing resource and at least one object representing communications processing operations and resource usage within a communications processing system.