Using dynamic object modeling and business rules to dynamically specify and modify behavior

A method of configuring a manageable entity, comprising:

• providing an information model stored in a first repository, wherein said information model defines a set of model elements, wherein the model elements specific features, behaviors, or relationships of one or more manageable entities;
• providing a managing device having a processor and a memory, wherein said managing device is in communication with said first repository and is configured to respond to a system event;
• storing to a second repository, a plurality of code sections for deriving a set of one or more data models from the information model, wherein said each data model in said set of data models comprises a subset of said set of model elements;
• wherein said managing device is further configured to respond to said system event by:
• recognizing the system event;
• processing the system event to determine one or more requested configurations for a manageable entity;
• retrieving a plurality of code sections from the one or more data models for managing a requested configuration of said manageable entity;
• constructing one or more objects that represent the requested configuration for the manageable entity;
• and
• executing one or more processes that implement the requested configurations specified by the one or more objects.

A configurable network for specifying the features and behavior of a set of network resources comprising:

• at least one processor coupled to a memory, wherein the memory stores an object-oriented information model, and instruction code executable by the processor to cause that processor to perform at least one transformation process that converts all or part of the information model into all or part of at least one data model wherein the processor:
• modifies instance data of all or part of at least one object created in the object oriented data model based on received network events;
• invokes a mapping function to interpret the modified instance data by mapping the modified instance data to one or more predefined control points in the codes of the one or more data models according to a policy rule;
• and
• executes the codes of the one or more data models to output network functions to configure a network resource according to the modified instance data, wherein none of the code in the information model changes during the configuration.