CA2535707C - Method for integrated management and provision of services in communication network - Google Patents

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CA2535707C
CA2535707C CA2535707A CA2535707A CA2535707C CA 2535707 C CA2535707 C CA 2535707C CA 2535707 A CA2535707 A CA 2535707A CA 2535707 A CA2535707 A CA 2535707A CA 2535707 C CA2535707 C CA 2535707C
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The present invention provides a method for integrated management and provision of services, comprising the following steps: creating management area for multiple types of services, and dividing the management area into multi-level management sub-areas; binding corresponding basic configuration information to the individual levels of management sub-areas; distributing corresponding services in accordance with management area number provided by user. Higher service integration level and good operability may be achieved, and a unified external interface can be provided for users, through the method of the present invention. The problem of disorder on service organization and management in the prior art can be effectively overcome, and the service configuration efficiency is improved and the complexity in service configuration is reduced.

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METHOD FOR INTEGRATED MANAGEMENT AND PROVISION OF
SERVICES IN COMMUNICATION NETWORK
Field of the Invention [1] The present invention relates to provision and management of services in communication network, and particularly, to method for integrated management and provision of multiple types of services in communication network.
Background of the Invention [2] In the field of telecommunication today, network management for telecommunication services has become an important part of various network management systems gradually. Network management systems provide the functionality of service management, which greatly relieves the burden of those who are responsible for telecommunication service provision and maintenance.
[3] As there are more and more types of telecommunication services, it is an urgent problem to be solved in service management of Network management systems as to how to organize integrated provision and management of multiple types of services clearly, compactly, and efficiently. However, there are no methods of integrated service provision and management in most of the existing network management systems. What is usually used in the existing network management systems is a mode for provision and management of multiple types of services separated from each other.
[4] In such a mode, the provision and management of various types of telecommunication services are separated from each other, there is not any relation among them. From the viewpoint of the interfaces . CA 02535707 2006-02-13 , 0P050118.PCT.original.CA
of network management systems, there are multiple service provision and management systems (each service type has its own independent service system). For users, there is no unified entry to service management of network management systems. Furthermore, it is required to repeat some basic configuration of equipment parameters for each service provision and management system, and even for each operation of service provision and management. This brings great inconvenience to users and results in disorder and decentralization in the hierarchy of service organization.
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Such problem is not severe when there are fewer service types in a network management system; however, it becomes significant when there are more service types in a network management system.
Especially for some integrated network management systems with higher integration scale, such problem becomes more severe.
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Specifically, solutions for provision and management of multiple service types separated from each other has the following drawbacks:
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1. The multiple types of services are not integrated, and there is no unified user interface;
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2. Configuration for some basic equipment and environmental parameters has to be repeated for each type of service, even for each operation, resulting in low efficiency of user;
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3. There is no division on service hierarchy, and the service organization is confused, substantially in disorder state;
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4. Operability is low since services are not integrated, exhibiting little difference from some host software, such as command line, when viewed from functionality.
Summary of the Invention [11]
Thus, In order to overcome above drawbacks in the technology ¨2¨

of provision and management of multiple service types separated from each other in the prior art, embodiments of the present invention provide a new method for integrated management and provision of services, thereby providing a solution for unified, centralized management of multiple types of services in large-scale integrated network management systems.
In one aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method for integrated management and provision of services, comprising the following steps:
creating a management area for multiple types of services, and dividing this management area into multi-level management sub-areas; binding corresponding basic configuration information for the individual levels of management sub-areas;
establishing correlations between last level management sub-areas and specific service objects, the specific service objects inherit public configuration information in the individual levels of management sub-areas to which the specific service objects belong; and distributing corresponding services in accordance with last level management sub-area codes provided by user.
In another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method for integrated management and provision of services in a management area, the management area being divided into multi-level management sub-areas, wherein the method comprises the following steps: binding corresponding basic configuration information for the individual levels of management sub-areas; establishing correlations between last level management sub-areas and specific service objects, the specific service objects inheriting public configuration information in the individual levels of management sub-areas to which the specific service objects belong;
and distributing corresponding services in accordance with last level management sub-area codes provided by user.
[12] The method for integrated management and provision of services according to another aspect of the present invention comprises the following steps:
creating management area for multiple types of services, and dividing this management area into multi-level management sub-areas;
binding corresponding basic configuration information to the individual levels of management sub-areas; distributing corresponding services in accordance with management area number provided by user.
[13] In an embodiment of the present invention, the management area is a multi-way tree structure, preferably a binary tree structure. In such cases, the management area is divided into multiple levels through the following steps:
dividing the management area into level 1 management sub-areas according to geographical factors; dividing the level 1 sub-areas into level 2 management sub-areas according to telecommunication service factors. The basic configuration information bound to the individual levels of management sub-areas may be: binding geographical configuration information of service management for the level 1 management sub-areas; binding configuration information of individual service types for the level 2 management sub-areas. The configuration information may be networking environment, protocol type, or allocation of network segments, etc.
[14] In another embodiment of the present invention, the steps through which the management area is divided into multi-level management sub-areas further comprises:
establishing correlation - 3a -= CA 02535707 2006-02-13 0P050118.PCT.original.CA
between the last level management sub-areas and specific service objects; the specific service objects inherit public configuration information in the individual levels of management sub-areas to which the specific service objects belong.
[15] The present invention has the following beneficial effects:
[16] 1. As the service structure in the solutions of the present invention is divided according to a tree structure, it is clear and therefore easy to manage. Accordingly, higher service integration level and good operability can be achieved;
[17] 2. With the above mentioned advantages of the present invention, integration of multiple types of services can be performed in arbitrary way, and a unified external interface can be provided for users. Therefore, the problem of disorder on service organization and management in the prior art can be effectively overcome;
[18] 3. The present invention also implements single configuring and binding of basic configuration information, therefore, the service configuration efficiency is improved and the complexity in service configuration is reduced.
Brief Description of the Drawings [19] Fig.' is a schematic drawing showing the structure of service management area according to an embodiment of the present invention.
Detailed Description of the Preferred Embodiments [20] The present invention employs an integrated service provision and management mode with service management area as the center. Fig.' is the schematic showing the structure of service management area according to an embodiment of the present invention. The service management area shown in Fig .1 is in a multi-way tree structure. The root node of the tree is a unified entry point of a service management = CA 02535707 2006-02-13 0P050118.PCT.original.CA
system; the configuration of multi-level service management area can be implemented as required under the root node. Theoretically, the multi-way tree structure can be expanded unlimitedly according to specific service requirement. However, in the practical application, a 2-level or 3-level tree structure is recommended.
[21] In such solutions of the present invention, the principle of internal classified processing with a unified external interface is employed, so as to overcome the defect that there is no unified entry for service management in network management system in the prior art.
That is, in the multi-way tree structure of above mentioned service management area, the root node is used as the unified external interface. In this way, there is only one user interface from the viewpoint of users who need services to be provided, i.e., there is only one entry for service provision and management in the entire network management system.
[22] From the viewpoint of practical service processing, services are processed hierarchically and according to the service types in the multi-way-tree-structured service management area.
[23] In a preferred embodiment, the multi-way tree structure is a binary tree structure. Under the root node in this binary tree structure, level 1 service management areas are divided with geographical factors, so that level 1 service management areas for different geographical regions are formed after such first level division; then, each level 1 management area can be divided according to telecommunication service factors, so that level 2 service management areas for different service types are formed based on level 1 management areas after the second level division.
[24] For instance, a simple example of the management area is as follows:
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¨Guangdong Province I --Guangzhou City I ¨Service A
I ¨Device 1 I ¨Device 2 I --Device 3 I --Service B
I --Device 1 I --Device 2 I --Device 3 I --Service C
I ¨Device 1 I --Device 2 [25]
In this example, "Guangdong Province" and "Guangzhou City"
belong to level 1 service management areas divided with geographical factors. In addition, level 1 service management areas can be further divided into layers with geographical factors, for instance, "Guangzhou City" (of course, there may include other cities and counties ) belongs to "Guangdong Province". "Service A", "Service B", and "Service C" belong to level 2 management areas divided with telecommunication service type; whereas "Device 1", "Device 2", and the like refer to currently manageable devices under such service types.
[26] In the telecommunication service factors, the classification = CA 02535707 2006-02-13 0P050118.PCT.original.CA
of telecommunication services is a major form therein.
Telecommunication services maybe classified in different ways. For instance, telecommunication services may be classified as: voice services, multimedia services, data services, etc.; or may be classified into: Type-A device services, Type-B device services, and the like. For example, telecommunication services can be classified as follows: IAD (Integrated Access Device) services, UMG(Universal Media Gateway) services, AMG(Access Media Gateway) services, etc, according to terminal access devices.
[27] Of course, the service management area may be divided in other ways. For example, telecommunication service types may be used as the standard of the first level division, and then the second level division may be performed according to geographical factors. Of course, the division standard can also be determined according to the practical requirement. In other words, the division standard can be determined and combined arbitrarily. The division may be performed according to any other factors other than geographical factors or telecommunication service types. There are many other division standards, such as user group or number segment, etc, in addition to the division standard of the combination of geographical factors and telecommunication service types mentioned above.
[28] Level 2 service management areas may also be divided with other factors, such as networking environment. Thus, the multi-way tree structure of the service management area described in the present invention has a good hierarchy. It can accommodate unified, centralized management of different service types, and the layers are associated with each other, which facilitate search and maintenance; furthermore, this model is highly expandable. Any new telecommunication services can be included for management by creating sub-nodes at corresponding positions in the model tree.

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[29] In the present invention, some basic configuration information for service provision and management are encapsulated and shielded with the service management area based on the criteria of single configuration, in order to reduce complexity in service configuration and improve service configuration efficiency. That is to say, the basic configuration information is attached to corresponding nodes in the service management area, and it is not necessary for the users to know the particular content of the basic configuration information or to configure the basic configuration information repeatedly. What is necessary for the user to know during the practical service provision and management, is only the code (may be the name) of the corresponding service management area, and all the basic configuration information of the service management area corresponding to the code can be obtained directly. In this way, the complexity in the actual service provision and management can be reduced significantly, and the service configuration efficiency can be improved.
[30] In the above example, the bound basic configuration information, for example, may be: geographical nodes may be bound with information related with geographical regions;
telecommunication service nodes may be bound with information related with telecommunication services (e.g., networking environment, protocol type, or allocation of network segments, and the like); for the nodes on the same level, the quantity and types of the basic configuration information are the same, for example, each telecommunication service node on the same level is bound with a set of networking protocol, transmission standard, and information of networking device groups, though the specific content of the information is different.
[31] In other words, in the service management area in the binary = CA 02535707 2006-02-13 0P050118.PCT.original.CA
tree structure as mentioned above, the basic configuration information of service provision and management can be further bound.
Namely, geographical configuration information for service management is bound to tone with level 1 service management areas (i.e., service management areas divided with geographical factors);
In addition, configuration information of each specific service type may be bound to tone with level 2 service management areas (i.e., service management areas divided with telecommunication service factors).
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Wherein, the networking environment refers to the networking environment in which the services are provided. For example, if the provision of a service requires central device A, terminal device B and C, then A, B, and C constitute the networking environment for the present service provision.
[33] The protocol type, for example, indicates whether the protocol used for communication between terminal devices and the central device in the networking environment is MGCP (Media Gateway Control Protocol) or H.248 protocol or the like. Of course, other protocols, such as SIP (Session Initiation Protocol, which is a protocol on application layer for establishing, modifying and terminating multimedia sessions or calls), V5 protocol or the like, may also be included.
[34] The allocation of network segments refers to the allocation of existing network IP resources. For example, such network segment as 10.22.1.0 can be configured according to the actual requirement of network planning, 10.22.1.1-10.22.1.100 is assigned to service A, and 10.22.1.101 -10.22.1.254 is assigned to service B.
[35] Thus, what is necessary for the user to do during the actual service provision and management, is only to provide the code of the corresponding service management area, and repeated configuration ¨9¨

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of quantity of basic configuration information can be omitted, thereby the efficiency of service provision and management can be improved significantly, and the complexity in user service configuration can be reduced.
[36] In another embodiment of the present invention, specific services can be further considered as expanding of the multi-way tree structure mentioned above. That is to say, specific service objects can be attached under the last-level nodes in the service management area, for instance, terminal access device nodes can be attached under the last-level nodes. Furthermore, terminal user nodes can also be attached under the individual terminal device nodes. Similar to the above method, each parent node is bound with public configuration attributes; and each child node (device node or terminal user node)can inherit this public configuration attributes from its corresponding parent node, thereby unnecessary repeated configuration can be avoided. Furthermore, in such a way, the entire service provision and management hierarchy, from the root node to last-level child nodes, is very clear and easy to manage.
[37] The above description of the embodiments of the present invention is to make the present invention better understood by those skilled in the art, and not to limit the present invention. Therefore, any modification to the solutions of the present invention without departing from the spirit of the present invention shall fall into the scope defined in the claims of the present invention.

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1. A method for integrated management and provision of services, comprising the following steps:
creating a management area for multiple types of services, and dividing this management area into multi-level management sub-areas;
binding corresponding basic configuration information for the individual levels of management sub-areas;
establishing correlations between last level management sub-areas and specific service objects, the specific service objects inherit public configuration information in the individual levels of management sub-areas to which the specific service objects belong; and distributing corresponding services in accordance with last level management sub-area codes provided by user.
2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the management area is a multi-way tree structure.
3. The method according to claim 2, wherein the multi-way tree structure is a binary tree structure.
4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the step of dividing the management area into multi-level management sub-areas comprises:
dividing the management area into Level 1 management sub-areas according to geographical factors;
dividing the Level 1 management sub-areas into Level 2 management sub-areas according to telecommunication service factors.
5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the step of binding corresponding basic configuration information for individual levels of management sub-areas comprises:
binding geographical configuration information of service management for level 1 management sub-areas;
binding configuration information of individual service types for level 2 management sub-areas.
6. The method according to claim 5, wherein the configuration information is networking environment, protocol type, and allocation of network segments.
7. The method according to any one of claims 1-6, wherein the step of distributing corresponding services in accordance with last level management sub-area codes provided by user comprises: sending the basic configuration information of the last level management sub-areas corresponding to the last level management sub-area codes to the user.
8. The method according to claim 7, wherein the step of establishing correlations between the last level management sub-areas and specific service objects comprises:
establishing terminal access device nodes under the last-level service management area nodes;
attaching terminal user nodes under the individual terminal device nodes;
binding corresponding public configuration attributes for the terminal user nodes.
9. A method for integrated management and provision of services in a management area, the management area being divided into multi-level management sub-areas, wherein the method comprises the following steps:
binding corresponding basic configuration information for the individual levels of management sub-areas;
establishing correlations between last level management sub-areas and specific service objects, the specific service objects inheriting public configuration information in the individual levels of management sub-areas to which the specific service objects belong; and distributing corresponding services in accordance with last level management sub-area codes provided by user.
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