Mediaone Group, Inc.

Emperative, Inc.

Glendon Ross Diener

Curtis Riggs

John P Lafer

John E Faust

A provisioning engine for provisioning communications services and a pattern language for configuring the provisioning engine. A plurality of objects can be assembled to define provisioning models representing state machines for carrying out common provisioning operations. The state machines include a set of plural current states of the provisioning model, mechanisms for generating signals, tasks, and at least one transition operative to define conditions under which the tasks are executed and states are added to or removed from the set of current states. Signals can be executed instantaneously or scheduled for later execution to permit provisioning operations to be controlled in a temporal manner. The provisioning models can be executed as specific instances and instances can include calls to other models to be executed as subinstances.

Communications services provisioning method and apparatus and object programming language for developing provisioning models

A method and system for web site construction using HTML fragment caching includes embedding particular tags in a stored HTML page, and when a request for distribution of the HTML page is received from a user, replacing each tag with content information in the form of HTML fragments previously created based on user preference information. The HTML fragments are stored in a tag cache, thereby decreasing the amount of time necessary to construct and distribute customized Web pages. Creation of the HTML fragments can be based on topic information supplied by the user to form a user customizable key through which content is retrieved from the tag cache.

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Glendon Ross Diener