Method and apparatus for operating a telecommunication platform
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsStephan Braun, Serge Moro
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Abstract
According to one aspect of the present invention, there is provided a telecommunications platform having a plurality of communications links of which only a portion of the links are enabled for use through the activation of a first base license key, comprising: a licensing framework for activating an upgrade license key to enable additional ones of the plurality of links; and a traffic monitoring element for measuring the traffic level of the platform and for generating data related to the measured traffic level when it is determined that the measured traffic level is indicative that the number of links used is greater than that provided for by the base license key.
Claims18
A telecommunications platform having a plurality of communications links, each link providing a certain amount of traffic capacity to a communications network, of which only a portion of the links to the communications network are enabled for use through the activation of a first base license key, comprising:
- a licensing framework for activating an upgrade license key to enable additional ones of the plurality of links to the communications network to increase the total amount of traffic capacity to the communications network;
- and
- a traffic monitoring element for measuring the traffic level of the platform and for generating data related to the measured traffic level for determining whether the number of links to the communications network which are used is greater than that provided for by the base license key.
A method of operating a telecommunications platform having a plurality of communications links, each link providing a certain amount of traffic capacity to a communications network, of which only a portion of the links to the communications network are enabled for use through the activation of a first base license key, comprising:
- activating an upgrade license key to enable additional ones of the plurality of links to the communications network to increase the total amount of traffic capacity to the communications network;
- measuring the traffic level of the platform;
- and
- generating data related to the measured traffic level for determining whether the number of links to the communications network which are used is greater than that provided for by the base license key.
A telecommunications platform having a plurality of communications links, each link providing a certain amount of traffic capacity to a communications network, of which only a portion of the links to the communications network are enabled for use through the activation of a first base license key, comprising:
- a licensing framework for activating an upgrade license key to temporarily enable additional ones of the plurality of links to the communications network to increase the total amount of traffic capacity to the communications network.
A telecommunications platform having a plurality of available communications links, each link providing a certain amount of traffic capacity to a communications network, of which only a portion of the links to the communications network are enabled for use with the platform through the activation of a first base license key, comprising:
- a licensing framework for activating an upgrade license key to enable additional ones of the plurality of links to the communications network to increase the total amount of traffic capacity to the communications network;
- and
- a traffic monitoring element for measuring, in response to the activation of the upgrade license key, the traffic level of the platform and for generating data related to the measured traffic level when it is determined that the measured traffic level is indicative that the number of links used is greater than that provided for by the base license key.
A telecommunications platform having a plurality of communications links, each link providing a certain amount of traffic capacity to a communications network, of which only a first portion of the links to the communications network are enabled for use, comprising:
- a licensing framework for activating an upgrade license key to enable additional ones of the plurality of links to the communications network to increase the total amount of traffic capacity to the communications network;
- and
- a traffic monitoring element for measuring the traffic level of the platform and for generating data related to the measured traffic level for determining whether the number of links to the communications network which are used exceeds the number in the first portion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.