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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 20, 2019
Filed:
Mar. 30, 2016
British Telecommunications Public Limited Company, London, GB;
Michael Turner, London, GB;
Alexander Healing, London, GB;
BRITISH TELECOMMUNICATIONS PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY, London, GB;
Abstract
A method of operating a communications network is disclosed. In order to manage a network, it is first necessary to establish the state the network is in. This is difficult in practice because the network operational data stored and transmitted in the network takes a myriad of forms owing to the variety of suppliers and types of network equipment. There is a need to distil that network operational data down to aggregate network operational data which can be taken to provide an indication of the state of the network which is of a manageable size, and to which network management apparatus can react by sending control commands to the network. The problem of generating aggregate network operational data is difficult because of the heterogeneity of network operational data items. By finding attribute names in different network operational data items which match one another, and then comparing attribute values provided from those matching attribute names, a comparison of heterogeneous network operational data items is enabled. This enables the production of network aggregate data which more accurately reflects the operational state of the network. This in turn leads to the network management apparatus controlling the network to operate in a more efficient manner than has hitherto been possible.