Expert and data base system and method for communications network

An expert system for operation on desired usage data and relationship data of a land-based communications network, which expert system comprises:

• means for producing said relationship data from said desired usage data to assist in the configuration of the communication network, said means comprising:
• a working memory;
• a knowledge base having at least one chunk of knowledge relating to the configuration of the communication network and one module means for storing said chunk of knowledge according to logical constraints, said module means including means for partial configuration of the communications network;
• and
• inference engine means, connected to said working memory and said knowledge base, for firing said chunk of knowledge in response to said desired usage data to produce said relationship data.

An expert system for operation on desired usage data and relationship data of a land-based communications network, which expert system comprises:

• means for producing said relationship data from said desired usage data to assist in the configuration of the communications network, said means comprising:
• a working memory;
• a knowledge base having at least one chunk of knowledge relating to the configuration of the communications network and one module means for storing said chunk of knowledge according to logical constraints, said module means including means for assigning channel cards numbers;
• and
• inference engine means, connected to said working memory and said knowledge base, for firing said chunk of knowledge in response to said desired usage data to produce said relationship data.

An expert system for operation on desired usage data and relationship data of a land-based communications network, which expert system comprises:

• means for producing said relationship data from said desired usage data to assist in the configuration of the communications network, said means comprising:
• a working memory;
• a knowledge base having at least one chunk of knowledge relating to the configuration of the communications network and one module means for storing said chunk of knowledge according to logical constraints, said module means including means for producing a link sizing device map;
• and
• inference engine means, connected to said working memory and said knowledge base, for firing said chunk of knowledge in response to said desired usage data to produce said relationship data.

An expert system for operation on desired usage data and relationship data of a land-based communications network, which expert system comprises:

• means for producing said relationship data from said desired usage data to assist in the configuration of the communications network, said means comprising:
• a working memory;
• a knowledge base having at least one chunk of knowledge relating to the configuration of the communications network and one module means for storing said chunk of knowledge according to logical constraints, said module means including means for creating and allocation records;
• and
• inference engine means, connected to said working memory and said knowledge base, for firing said chunk of knowledge in response to said desired usage data to produce said relationship data.

An expert and database system architecture for use with a multiplexer communications network, which system architecture comprises:

• (1) requirement means for providing desired usage data based on human user input;
• (2) an expert system connected to said requirement means which comprises:
• (a) a working memory;
• (b) a knowledge base having at least a chunk of knowledge relating to the configuration of the multiplexer communications network;
• and
• (c) inference engine means, connected to said working memory and to said knowledge base, for firing said chunk of configuration knowledge in response to said desired usage data to produce relationship data;
• and
• (3) configuration means for storing said relationship data from said expert system, said relationship data used to configure the multiplexer communications network.

A human user controlled expert system operational method and an expert and database system architecture for use with a multiplexer communications network, which comprises:

• requirements means for producing desired usage of the multiplexer communications network adapted to allow the human user to maintain said desired usage;
• expert system means connected to said requirements means for allowing the human user to control and maintain the operation of said expert system means for configuring of the multiplexer communications network to produce relationship data from said desired usage data;
• and
• configuration means for storing said relationship data from the expert system means and adapted to allow the human user to maintain said relationship data.