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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 11, 2014
Filed:
Jan. 22, 2010
Szymon Fedor, Athlone, IE;
Liam Fallon, Athlone, IE;
Szymon Fedor, Athlone, IE;
Liam Fallon, Athlone, IE;
Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (PUBL), Stockholm, SE;
Abstract
A method and apparatus for assessing the compatibility of a selected network feature with the network features of an existing telecommunications networkcomprises providing an abstraction of each network feature in the form of a data modelwhich defines the relationships between any network elementsor nodessoftware elementsand software featuresrequired for each network feature. Informationis then collected about the existing telecommunications networkto identity the deployment of the network features in the existing network. This information is then combined with the data modelto build a feature compatibility matrixwhich defines the compatibility of network features in the existing telecommunications networkThe matrixcan then be interrogated with information defining the parameters of the selected feature to be added or upgraded to determine whether the selected feature is compatible with features of the existing network.