Claims
- 1. An apparatus comprising:
a network management system communicating with a plurality of intelligent distributed network nodes, said network management system dynamically distributing at least one managed object selected from the group consisting of a service control managed object, a call control managed object, a bearer control managed object, and a resource proxy managed object, across the plurality of intelligent distributed network nodes.
- 2. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said at least one managed object includes a service control managed object.
- 3. The apparatus according to claim 2, wherein said service control managed object includes at least one of session-related information, a service function, and a service-arbitration function.
- 4. The apparatus according to claim 2, wherein said service control managed object includes at least one of a session manager class, a bearer capability class, a service arbitration class, a feature class, a service discriminator class, a media independent services class, and a connection manager class.
- 5. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said at least one managed object includes a call control managed object.
- 6. The apparatus according to claim 5, wherein said call control managed object includes at least one of a call processing function relating to origination and a call processing function relating to termination.
- 7. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said at least one managed object includes a bearer control managed object.
- 8. The apparatus according to claim 7, wherein said bearer control managed object includes at least one of a quality of service, subscriber line number, a class of service, a type of access, and a change of bearer function.
- 9. The apparatus according to claim 8, wherein said bearer control managed object includes at least one of a channel associated class, a channel single class, and a channel common class.
- 10. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said at least one managed object includes a resource proxy managed object.
- 11. The apparatus according to claim 10, wherein said resource proxy managed object includes an interface to a bearer in a network.
- 12. The apparatus according to claim 10, wherein said resource proxy managed object includes at least one of a phone class, a voice response unit class, a trunk circuit class, and a modem class.
- 13. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein at least one intelligent distributed network node of the plurality of intelligent distributed network nodes includes at least one of a switch intelligence and a service processor.
- 14. The apparatus according to claim 13, wherein said network management system distributes the at least one managed object selected from the group consisting of the call control managed object, the bearer control managed object, and the resource proxy managed object, to the switch intelligence.
- 15. The apparatus according to claim 13, wherein said network management system distributes the service control managed object to the service processor.
- 16. The apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a managed object creation environment at least one of communicating directly with said network management system and communicating indirectly with said network management via a managed object repository.
- 17. The apparatus according to claim 16, wherein said managed object creation environment includes at least one tool for at least one of creating and modifying the at least one of a service control managed object, a call control managed object, a bearer control managed object, and a resource proxy managed object.
- 18. The apparatus according to claim 17, wherein the at least one of a service control managed object, a call control managed object, a bearer control managed object, and a resource proxy managed object is stored in said managed object repository prior to deployment thereof.
- 19. An apparatus for communicating with a service processing complex that provides at least one telecommunications feature, said apparatus comprising:
a network management system performing at least one of controlling deployment of the at least one telecommunications feature, maintaining a status of the at least one telecommunications feature, and providing information from the service processing complex about the at least one telecommunications feature.
- 20. An apparatus for communicating with a service processing complex that provides at least one telecommunications feature or a switch intelligence that controls a remote switch fabric, said apparatus comprising:
a network management system transferring executable code to at least one of the service processing complex and the switch intelligence.
- 21. The apparatus according to claim 20, wherein the executable code includes at least one of a service control managed object, a call control managed object, a bearer control managed object, and a resource proxy managed object.
- 22. The apparatus according to claim 21, wherein the service control managed object includes at least one of a session manager managed object, a bearer capability managed object, a service arbitration managed object, a communications feature managed object, a service discriminator managed object, media independent services managed object, and a connection manager managed object.
- 23. The apparatus according to claim 21, wherein the call control managed object includes at least one of an origination managed object and a termination managed object.
- 24. The apparatus according to claim 21, wherein bearer control managed object includes at least one of a channel associated managed object, a channel single managed object, and a channel common managed object.
- 25. The apparatus according to claim 20, wherein said network management system instantiates at least one service layer execution environment in the at least one service processing complex, the executable code being executed by the at least one service layer execution environment.
- 26. A method comprising:
distributing at least one managed object selected from the group consisting of a service control managed object, a call control managed object, a bearer control managed object, and a resource proxy managed object, to a plurality of intelligent distributed network nodes using a network management system.
- 27. The method according to claim 26, wherein said distributing step includes distributing at least one of the call control managed object, the bearer control managed object, and the resource proxy managed object to a switch intelligence.
- 28. The method according to claim 26, wherein said distributing step includes distributing the service control managed object to the service processor.
- 29. A method for communicating with a service processing complex that provides at least one telecommunications feature or a switch intelligence that controls a remote switch fabric, said method comprising:
transferring executable code to at least one of the service processing complex and the switch intelligence using a network management system.
- 30. The method according to claim 29, wherein the executable code includes at least one managed object selected from the group consisting of a service control managed object, a call control managed object, a bearer control managed object, and a resource proxy managed object.
- 31. The method according to claim 30, wherein the at least one managed object includes a service control managed object.
- 32. The method according to claim 30, wherein the at least one managed object includes a call control managed object.
- 33. The method according to claim 30, wherein the at least one managed object includes a bearer control managed object.
- 34. The method according to claim 30, wherein the at least one managed object includes a resource proxy managed object.
- 35. The method according to claim 29, further comprising deploying at least one telecommunications feature, maintaining a health of the at least one telecommunications feature, and providing information about the at least one telecommunications feature.
CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION
[0001] This Application is a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/428,116 filed on Oct. 27, 1999 which is a divisional of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/128,937 and claims the benefit of the filing date of U.S. Provisional Application No. 60/061,173 filed on Oct. 6, 1997, the contents of which are hereby incorporated by reference in their entireties.
Provisional Applications (1)
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Divisions (1)
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Continuations (1)
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