Patent Document ID: 7596612
Application ID: 10721372

Base Claim:
1. A carrier virtual network interface system to allow an accessing telecommunication network managed by a network management system to indirectly manage the layer one resources dedicated to a carrier virtual network, the layer one resources dedicated to the carrier virtual network being directly managed by the network management system of each of at least one dedicating telecommunication network, the interface system comprising: a dedicating network interpretation layer that interfaces with the network management system of a dedicating telecommunication network, the dedicating network interpretation layer converting network information regarding layer one resources dedicated to the carrier virtual network from the dedicating telecommunication network to messages for transmission to the network management system of the accessing telecommunication network and converting messages from the network management system of the accessing telecommunication network to network instructions for use by the network management system of the dedicating telecommunication network, wherein the dedicated layer one resources of the dedicating-telecommunication network are freely accessible to the accessing-telecommunication network such that the network management system of the accessing telecommunication network can provision the dedicated layer one resources as if part of the accessing telecommunication network; an accessing network interpretation layer that interfaces with the network management system of the accessing telecommunication network, the accessing network interpretation layer converting messages received from the network management system of the dedicating telecommunication network to network information for use by the network management system of the accessing telecommunication network and converting network instructions from the network management system of the accessing telecommunication network to messages for transmission to the network management system of each of the at least one dedicating telecommunication networks, the network management system of the accessing telecommunication network: (1) maintaining information identifying the layer one resources of the dedicating telecommunication network dedicated to the carrier virtual network that is accessible by the accessing telecommunication network in a resource allocation record; (2) receiving a customer request to establish service; (3) referencing the resource allocation record to ascertain that the customer request can be satisfied by utilizing the layer one resources of the dedicating telecommunication network dedicated to the carrier virtual network that is accessible by the accessing telecommunication network, without engaging the network management system of the dedicating telecommunication network; and a communication layer that transmits messages from the dedicating network interpretation layer to the accessing network interpretation layer and from the accessing network interpretation layer to the dedicating network interpretation layer.

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Claim 11:
11. The carrier virtual network interface of claim 1 , wherein the communication layer transmits using a Telnet protocol.