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US 6,289,215 B1Granted
Method for operating a telecommunication network using maintenance messages having filter conditions
AssigneeSiemens Aktiengesellschaft
InventorsKarl Bernhardi, Bernhard Schild
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Abstract
The method defines operating a telecommunication network. Application objects which are to be processed using the filter conditions in a maintenance message are selected in an exchange from a control computer. In the exchange, a central interface program uses the filter condition to select an application program in a preselection process. When the application program is executed, the application objects to be processed are then selected and processed.
Claims15
A method of operating a telecommunications network, which comprises:
- providing a switching processor with an operating system and a plurality of application programs for processing application objects containing object data prescribed according to association with an object class;
- controlling call-processing equipment with the switching processor at a network node of a telecommunications network;
- maintaining the switching processor from at least one control computer, using at least one maintenance message;
- forming the maintenance message with a filter condition for selecting particular application objects;
- upon execution of an interface program used for a plurality of application programs, utilizing the filter condition to select at least one object class and at least one application program processing the application objects for the object class;
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- when the selected application program is executed, selecting and processing the application objects.
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A network element for a telecommunication network, comprising:
- a data memory for storing application objects containing object data prescribed according to association with an object class;
- a program memory for storing a plurality of application programs and an interface program;
- wherein the application objects are processed when the application program is executed;
- wherein, upon execution of the interface program, maintenance messages received via an interface to a control computer are forwarded to at least one application program with a filter condition for selecting particular application objects;
- at least one processor configured to execute instructions of the application programs and of the interface program, wherein said processor is programmed to:
- select at least one application program via the filter condition on execution of the interface program;
- and
- select and process the application objects on execution of the selected application program.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.