At&t Intellectual Property I, L.p.

David Whitney

Jeff Johnson

Brian Horen

Michael O'Connor

Ernest Bayha

Enhsing Lin

Theresa Michael

Aaron Harris

Nathan Skinner

Laurie Mitsanas

Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a database being maintained that has information indicating states of network resources, which can be determined based on physical activities, logical activities and hybrid activities performed on or by the network resources; obtaining activity information for a particular network resource, where the activity information is a physical activity, a logical activity and/or a hybrid activity; and determining whether a state change for the particular network resource should be made such as to whether the activity information corresponds to and warrants change to at least one of an inventory state, an operational state, or a detailed state. Other embodiments are disclosed.

Multi-stage state model for the administration of physical, logical, and hybrid resources

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Cumming, GA, United States of America

David Whitney