Patent ID: 7275053

Claim:
A system for reporting performance of a telecommunication network or portion thereof, comprising: at least one user interface device for requesting a telecommunication network performance report and selection of a configuration of the report, the user interface device providing a first user option for requesting a first input parameter to base the report at least in part upon common data and a second input parameter to base the report at least in part upon performance data, wherein common data defines fixed properties of a set of one or more telecommunication network elements and performance data defines operational performance of a set of one or more telecommunication network elements; a call statement module programmed to receive and convert said first and second input parameters into a database procedure call statement; a database report module programmed to: (i) receive said procedure call statement; (ii) query meta-data tables comprising telecommunication network data so as to determine location of information for data responsive to said call statement; (iii) receive from said meta-data tables the location information, and; (iv) use the location information to retrieve data responsive to said call statement; and, a report presentation module programmed to: (i) receive the responsive data; and (ii) convert and output the responsive data into the requested telecommunication network performance report having the selected configuration.