Patent ID: 8009808

Claim:
A remote terminal office administration and maintenance (OA&M) system for maintaining a call control translations database at a call control system synchronized with a local switching office translations database comprising: a communications interface coupled with an OA&M line to the local switching office and configured to monitor received OA&M data on the OA&M line and coupled to communicate with the call control system; a database configured to keep stored OA&M data regarding each line served by the call control system; and a controller coupled with the communications interface and with the database and configured to receive the received OA&M data from the communications interface and compare the received OA&M data with the stored OA&M data the controller and the database cooperating to save changes in the stored OA&M data regarding each line served by the call control system in the database as the received OA&M data is delivered to the local switching office.