Configuring and maintaining network node device
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsRobert Ellis Chapman, Jr., Edith Helen Stern, Barry E. Willner
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Abstract
The present invention is a method of initializing and updating a network node device to interoperate with one or more wireless devices on the network. The method on the system performs the following: downloading from the telephone network service those telephone identifiers eligible to communicate with said network node, and downloading indications of allowable services associated with each telephone identifier.
Claims10
A method of initializing and updating a network node device to operate with one or more wireless devices, comprising the steps of:
- downloading from a telephone network service those telephone identifiers eligible to allow wireless devices using the telephone identifiers to communicate with telephone landlines through said network node;
- and
- downloading indications of allowable services associated with each telephone identifier, the indications determining which of the allowable services are available to a wireless device using a telephone identifier, the indications further identifying:
- (i) which telephone identifiers are assigned to dedicated telephone landlines;
- and
- (ii) which telephone identifiers are assigned to shared outgoing telephone landlines.
A storage medium containing a computer program to direct a network node controller, the computer program comprising the steps of:
- setting up communication with a network node controller;
- receiving configuration information including:
- (a) those telephone identifiers eligible to allow wireless devices using the telephone identifiers to communicate with telephone landlines through said network node;
- and
- (b) indications of allowable services associated with each telephone identifier, the indications determining which of the allowable services are available to a wireless device using a telephone identifier, the indications further identifying:
- (i) which telephone identifiers are assigned to dedicated telephone landlines;
- and
- (ii) which telephone identifiers are assigned to shared outgoing telephone landlines.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.