Patent Document ID: 8290367
Application ID: 12164989
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A method of automated activation and management by Operations Support Systems(OSS) of an end-to-end customer service over a multi-vendor, multi-technology network comprising multi-domain Generalized Multi-Protocol Label Switching (GMPLS) control plane enabled meshes and a mixed network containing one or more control plane networks and also containing one or more non-control plane traditional networks comprising the steps of: receiving an order to initiate the provisioning of a service on a control plane enabled network; validating, creating end to end service activation request, activation and monitoring the service activation request; performing OSS initiated discovery of the provisioned service on control plane enabled network for obtaining assignments made by the network within control plane mesh and including a hop-to-hop discovery across external network-to-network interface (E-NNI) links; generating a message with control plane network route assignments containing the assignments made by the network within a control plane mesh and providing the assignments to an OSS inventory system; updating the OSS inventory system database with assignments made by network within a control plane mesh; and sending control plane route assignments by the OSS inventory system for updates to the provisioning and monitoring OSS.