Patent Document ID: 8321544
Application ID: 10573103

Base Claim:
1. A method for minimizing a bandwidth required for a transfer of communication network administration information, said information relating to objects pertaining to hardware, software or network operation elements, catalogued in an administration information base and with each of which is associated a formal language specification, comprising the steps of: generating on a basis of a formal language specification for each object, a pair of words for which a value of first word pertains to an indication of the object and a value of second word pertains to an information length of the object; constructing a template comprising an ordered set of pairs of words generated and an identifier of said template, said template indicating an ordered string of information to be sent; exporting said template; and progressively exporting the ordered string of information corresponding to said template, said ordered string of information corresponding to said communication network administration information relating to said object.

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Claim 2:
2. The method as claimed in claim 1 , further comprising the steps of: traversing a tree of the administration information base each node of which is associated with an object; testing at each node whether the object is of scalar or table type; constructing the template by appending the word pair generated to the template if the object is of scalar type; constructing template if the object is of table type for the objects of the table.