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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 21, 2002
Filed:
Dec. 09, 1998
Nikolaos Anerousis, New York, NY (US);
Alexandros Biliris, Chatham, NJ (US);
Hosagrahar Visvesvaraya Jagadish, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
AT&T Corp., New York, NY (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus provide for the automatic aggregation of network management information in spatial, temporal and functional forms. Management information relating to a network is automatically aggregated by computational means in the form of a attribute name-value pair which is stored in an Aggregation Managed Object (AMO). The aggregation of network management information in the form of an AMO supports the spatial, temporal and functional aggregations. The AMOs themselves are stored in a database of a special management agent, the Management Aggregation and Visualization Server (MAVS) which allows network managers to access and set network information to and from the different aggregation forms.