WO2002052380A2 - Fully integrated service manager with automatic flow-through interconnection - Google Patents
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- the Act requires that Incumbent Local Exchange Carriers (ILEC), the
- CLEC Linear Exchange Carriers
- ICP Integrated Communications Provider
- CSP Competitive Service Provider
- ILECs also have a duty to
- the Act provides nondiscriminatory access or interconnection to such services or information as are necessary to allow the requesting CLEC to implement local dialing parity, including nondiscriminatory access to telephone numbers, operator service, directory assistance, and directory listing, with no unreasonable
- a CLEC can offer multiple types of services, including basic POTS, IXC long
- ISP Internet Service Provider ISP Internet Service Provider
- VPN virtual private network
- VoIP voice over internet
- VoDSL voice over DSL access
- video etc.
- VPNs Virtual Private Networks
- VPNs and DSL allow a subscriber to connect to a private corporate intranet.
- ICPs Integrated Communications Providers
- ICPs need to remain flexible, customer focused, and establish a
- ILECs have developed different methods to allow ICPs to electronically place
- the Gilles patent discloses methods of using EDI for
- An authorized ICP or reseller utilizes EDI to request from the ILEC
- the ILEC uses EDI to determine the present services being provided to a particular customer.
- the ILEC uses EDI to determine the present services being provided to a particular customer.
- the ICP In a separate embodiment, the ICP
- IP Protocol
- CSR customer service record
- ICPs will be able to significantly reduce the overhead that is associated with
- ICPs are in the
- ICPs In order to stay competitive, ICPs typically use a hybrid network with the ICP
- an ICP may have
- the ICP may own some pieces required to service the customer, such as a local
- a convergent order such as a cable or wireless portion
- the present invention is a system and method for retrieving customer service
- CSR that are electronically retrieved from incumbent local exchange providers
- the gateway comprises a means of transferring
- EDI electronic data interchange
- OBF conformance to order and billing forum
- the processing of information comprises software instructions grouped into a pre-order management component, a service management component, a design management component and a circuit management component.
- the pre-order management component comprising an automatic means of
- the service management component comprises an automatic means of creating and
- the circuit management component comprising a means of automatically
- the circuit management component further comprises an automatic means of
- the design management component comprises a means for automatically
- the algorithm decomposing said service model into sub-model components and creating a communications design therefrom. It further comprises a means of automatically issuing service requests to ICP trading partners.
- the computer processor is replaced
- a hosting processor further comprising a processing means, hosting of a gateway, graphical user interface and network connectivity means such as a connectivity means
- the hosting processor utilizes hypertext markup language for its
- the gateway comprises a means of transferring
- EFI electronic data interchange
- OBF order and billing forum
- the processing of information comprises software instructions grouped into a
- pre-order management component a service management component, a design
- the invention provides a system for
- ICP integrated communications provider
- a gateway means of transferring information to and receiving information from telecommunication service providers; a pre-order management component comprising an automatic means of
- HTML hypertext markup language
- ECI electronic data interchange
- CORBA common object request broker
- a design management component comprising a means for automatically
- Figure 1 schematically illustrates a process diagram of the system of the present
- FIG. 1 schematically illustrates the Pre-Order Management component of the
- FIG. 3 schematically illustrates the Service Management component of the present
- FIG. 4 schematically illustrates the Circuit Management component of the present
- FIG. 5 schematically illustrates the Design Management component of the present
- FIG. 6 schematically illustrates an embodiment of the present invention adding the
- Figure 7 schematically illustrates an embodiment of a sales proposal cycle utilizing
- Figure 8 schematically illustrates an embodiment of a Network Model Management
- the present invention comprises a system useful to integrated communications
- ICPs ICP providers
- resellers of ICP services for providing sales proposals based
- ANSI American National Standards Institute —United States-based organization that develops standards and defines interfaces for telecommunications.
- ATM Asynchronous Transfer Mode— An international ISDN high-speed, high-
- a client can
- DSL Digital subscriber line— allows broadband communication services over copper
- DLR Digital Line Request — Request for digital communication services.
- FID Field IDentifier-Used on service orders that indicates more data will follow.
- FIDs are alpha or alphanumeric codes that identify retained information on an account, indicate physical
- FOC Failure of Confirmation — A form of error message created when a request for
- communication services is either not received by or accepted by the services provider.
- ISP Internet Service Provider
- IXC Inter-exchange Carrier-A carrier authorized by the Federal Communications
- the USOC by qualifying the class of service with specific attributes such as 700/900 blocking.
- LSR Local Service Request —A request for service covered under the Local utility
- NAAR - Network Address Assignment Request Request for a network address
- IP address Internet protocol address
- POTS Plain Old Telephone Service
- Basic telephone service for the transmission of
- TN Telephone Number— A ten digit number comprised of an area code (NPA), an
- VoDSL- Voice over DSL The ability to carry normal telephone-style voice over a
- DSL digital subscriber line
- VoIP- Voice over IP The ability to carry normal telephone-style voice over an IP-
- VPN-Virtual Private Network -Switched network with special services like
- the invention comprises four major components
- Pre-order management component 20 is used to access a customer service record
- component 30 provides an integrated approach to order and trouble tickets wherein a
- the circuit management component 40 maintains an inventory of ICP
- the design management system 50 is used to design new services
- OSS integrated ICP operations support system
- FIG. 2 illustrates the Pre-order Management component 20 that supports
- pre-order functions such as sales proposal generation, customer service record (CSR)
- the gateway is preferably an OBF and EDI standards compliant
- interconnection gateway providing automated electronic access to ILEC and ICP
- the gateway allows an ICPs internal order management system to transfer and share relevant information including customer service record (CSR) retrieval, order
- CSR customer service record
- the gateway preferably handles data translations for EDI, CORBA, CMIP/CMIS, as well as translating coded information from foreign systems
- the gateway provides a validation check to ensure compliance with
- Pre-Order component 20 comprises sub-process 201 that
- report of present customer service is generated at sub-process 203 and displayed to the
- Sales proposals are generated by selecting from a
- the generated sales proposals preferably compare features and costs of ICP provided services in
- ICP sales representatives are able to revise the sales proposal by issuing
- the ICP sales representative selects which proposal to print for
- Another feature of the pre-order component is the ability to validate requested
- the pre-order component automatically creates service orders at
- FIG. 3 illustrates the Service Management 30 component of the invention.
- Service management component is useful in managing the
- the successful ICP is often required to provide single
- a customer may inquire as to service interruption
- the service management component accesses an internally
- the service management component accesses the circuit
- the service trouble ticket is then converted into a service work
- All service work plans comprise a status field or fields. These fields are
- a work plan may
- sales proposal identifies the quantity and location of different communication
- the service management component retrieves a service model for each
- the design management component 50 is automatically accessed to
- the service management component treats service work plans created from a
- the service management component allows ICP personnel to make a bill inquiry 312
- FIG. 4 illustrates the Circuit Management component 40 of the invention.
- This component maintains an inventory of ICP owned circuits (on-net asset) and the
- DLR data line request
- the design management component may
- the DLR is processed by determining if the request conforms to ICP product
- separately generated notification message 410 is used for matching trading partner
- the circuit management component also comprises a circuit testing means.
- This testing means can place any selected circuit into a desired state at 402 and the resultant data flow through the circuit tested. Testing can be done on an automatic
- a cutover request is generated at 407 and
- An alternate source of cutover request can occur subsequent to service
- the circuit management component may
- voice feature lines are able to accept a higher error rate as
- Such errors can also be set to initiate the search
- Figure 5 illustrates the Design Management component 50 of the invention.
- Design Management is used to design the optimum mix of on-net and off-net
- a request for a circuit design is originated from the service management
- the request selects a model for the type of communications service
- An ICP may offer a large number of services. Each of the service offerings is described in a service model that identifies in sub-model fashion 504, the
- the ICP employee is allowed to enter a request for a particular service
- the sub-models are
- the ICP employee can access a
- Figure 8 illustrates one embodiment of a
- the service model for an example product XYX at 800.
- the service model contains
- the product is further associated with a network model 810 comprising an equipment
- model 811 a transport model 812, an access model 813 and a control model 814.
- figure 5 that determines the origin of supply of the various sub-model components.
- Optimizing criteria include cost factors, availability, quality of service requested,
- one network may be optimized for quality of service
- the optimizing algorithm provides
- sub-component automatically decomposes the sub-model components and identifies
- the trading partner is determined at 506 and appropriate trading partner
- request orders are generated at 509.
- service request orders include Access
- Off-net component 40 for processing. Off-net component requests are then forwarded to the
- One type of service request 509 is the Network Address Assignment Request
- NAAR may require going out to an ILEC or trading partner to reserve
- IP address Internet protocol addresses
- the trading partner to acquire the address.
- the trading partner will either accept the request or
- the invention is preferably used in a client-server
- a hosting processor 600 operates the
- Internet Internet
- intranet including local area
- the hosting processor can be compatible with Microsoft Internet Explorer as well as
- FIG 7 illustrated in figure 7 and comprises the following:
- a request from a sales representative or trading partner of the ICP is received.
- a request 201a for the potential customer's CSR is entered.
- the Pre-order management component sends a request through the gateway to the incumbent local exchange carrier (ILEC) for the CSR.
- the Pre-order management component receives the CSR then parses it at 202 into recognizable codes and prepares as summary reports: CSR summary 203a, Account summary 203b, Broadband network summary 203c, consolidated reports 203d and cut-over report 203e.
- the consolidated reports feature combines the summaries from multiple customer locations.
- the Design management component 50 is then used to analyze further the CSR summary and select communication service models that satisfy present customer communication services.
- the optimizing algorithm 514 available in the design management selects the preferred sub-model components from the ICP's on-net product catalog 207c and off-net trading partner product catalogs 207b.
- the resultant network design and prices are combined into an initial proposal at 207a.
- the invention preferably creates a consolidated summary of the individual proposals. 5.
- the sales representative reviews the initial proposal and enters revisions or creates separate versions for comparison 207a. For example, alternate versions may be created using different technology choices such as frame relay or DSL. 6.
- the resultant versions of the sales proposal are then presented to the potential customer for acceptance 211a. If the proposal is not accepted, the sales representative can create additional versions of the proposal to present later. 7.
- the design management component prepares a cut-over report, confirms availability of sub-model components, issues appropriate orders for customer communication services and creates a workplan in the service management component 509. 8.
- the service management component 30 is utilized by the sales representative to track implementation progress and respond to failure of confirmations (FOC) from ICP trading partners. Alarms are preferably programmed to notify the sales representative when target completion dates are in jeopardy of being missed.
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