Patent ID: 7113789

Claim:
A computer-assisted method for tracking deployment of telecommunications facilities and providing real-time mapping information about the deployment of the facilities, comprising: providing a user interface for accepting a new facility; receiving a type and a location of the new facility via the user interface into a distributed information system; receiving a connection between the new facility and an existing facility; displaying the new facility, the existing facility, and the connection between the new facility and the existing facility on a computer-generated map, wherein the computer-generated map includes a geographical area in which the new facility, the existing facility, and the connection between the new facility and the existing facility are located; receiving a filtering command; if the filtering command comprises displaying facilities, then altering the computer-generated map to display the new facility and the existing facility; and if the filtering command comprises displaying connections, then altering the computer-generated map to display the connection between the new facility and the existing facility.