System and method for generating a chronic circuit report for use in proactive maintenance of a communication network
AssigneeBellSouth Intellectual Property Corporation
InventorWilliam Scott Taylor
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Abstract
A method for generating a chronic circuit report for use in maintaining a communication network is provided. The method comprises the steps of searching a database for information regarding circuit exceptions reported in a communication system, compiling a listing of circuits and circuit exception information, prioritizing the listing of the circuits based on the circuit exception information, and generating a circuit exception report.
Claims42
A computer-implemented system for identifying circuits in a communication network having chronic troubles, comprising:
- a searching module that searches through a database in a network monitoring system to identify communication circuits in a communication network that have had exceptions reported against them and to identify the number of exceptions of a plurality of types reported against the communication circuits;
- a prioritizing module having a data communication path with the searching module for prioritizing the communication circuits identified by the searching module;
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- a report generator module having a data communication path with the prioritizing module for generating a report that lists the communication circuits that had exceptions reported against them.
A system for monitoring end-to-end circuit exceptions in a communication network having a plurality of network elements, the system comprising:
- a storage area having a database for storing information regarding exceptions reported against circuits in the communication network;
- a circuit error posting subsystem for posting to circuit records contained in the database the information regarding exceptions reported against circuits;
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- a reporting subsystem comprising,
- a searching module that searches through the database in to identify the communication circuits that have had the exceptions reported against them and to identify the number of exceptions of a plurality of types reported against the communication circuits;
- a prioritizing module having a data communication path with the searching module for prioritizing the communication circuits identified by the searching module;
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- a report generator module having a data communication path with the prioritizing module for generating a report that lists the communication circuits that had exceptions reported against them.
A communication network, comprising:
- a plurality of network elements;
- and
- a monitoring system for monitoring end-to-end circuit exceptions reported by the network elements, the monitoring system comprising,
- a storage area having a database for storing information regarding exceptions reported against circuits in the communication network;
- a circuit error posting subsystem for posting to circuit records contained in the database the information regarding exceptions reported against circuits;
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- a reporting subsystem comprising,
- a searching module that searches through the database in to identify the communication circuits that have had the exceptions reported against them and to identify the number of exceptions of a plurality of types reported against the communication circuits;
- a prioritizing module having a data communication path with the searching module for prioritizing the communication circuits identified by the searching module;
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- a report generator module having a data communication path with the prioritizing module for generating a report that lists the communication circuits that had exceptions reported against them.
A method for identifying circuits having chronic troubles, comprising the steps of:
- retrieving circuit exception information that is stored in a database;
- organizing the retrieved information by affected circuit;
- categorizing and tallying the organized information so that for each circuit a count is generated that corresponds to the number of exceptions that the circuit experienced for that category of exception;
- prioritizing the categorized and tallied circuit exception information in accordance with prioritization rules;
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- generating a report containing the prioritized circuit exception information.
A method for generating a chronic circuit report for use in maintaining a communication network, comprising the steps of:
- searching a database for information regarding circuit exceptions reported in a communication system;
- compiling a listing of circuits and circuit exception information;
- prioritizing the listing of the circuits based on the circuit exception information;
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- generating a circuit exception report.
A chronic report for use in proactively monitoring a communication network, comprising:
- a listing of communication circuits in the communication network that have had exceptions reported against them in at least one of the past two time periods;
- a listing of the total number of exceptions reported against each circuit on the list that occurred in the prior time period;
- a listing of the total number of exceptions reported against each circuit on the list in the current time period;
- a plurality of categories of exceptions;
- a listing of the total number of exceptions reported for each circuit on the list in each category over the current time period;
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- wherein the order of circuit listing is based on a prioritization scheme wherein the circuit having the highest number of exceptions in a higher priority category in the current time period is listed first.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.