Telecommunications Visualization Tool for Network Data Correlation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Telecommunication network administrators face challenges in efficiently correlating and visualizing network infrastructure data to provide accurate quotes and service plans to customers, as existing methods are time-consuming and costly due to dispersed information sources.
Innovation Solution
A method and system that retrieve and correlate technical infrastructure data from databases with customer location information to determine network access points and generate service plans and estimated costs using a visualization tool, integrating external and internal databases with a computing unit for efficient data processing.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If network administrators manually correlate and visualize network infrastructure data from dispersed databases, then they can provide service quotes and plans, but the process becomes time-consuming and costly
Solution Approach 1:
The system enables automated self-service by having the network infrastructure data automatically correlate with customer location information through the visualization tool, eliminating the need for manual administrator intervention in the data correlation process. The system self-updates and self-processes data from multiple databases to generate service quotes automatically.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces manual mechanical data correlation processes with an automated computational system. The visualization tool uses computer-executable instructions to automatically retrieve, correlate, and process data from multiple databases, substituting the manual mechanical process of data gathering and correlation with automated digital processing.
2Loss of information
If administrators use multiple dispersed databases and informational sheets for network data, then they have comprehensive information, but the complexity of correlating and visualizing this data increases
Solution Approach 1:
The visualization tool merges multiple dispersed databases and informational sheets into a single integrated interface. It combines network infrastructure data from internal databases with customer location information from external databases, presenting all relevant data in one unified visualization that can be correlated automatically without requiring complex manual processing.
Solution Approach 2:
The visualization tool acts as an intermediary layer between the multiple dispersed data sources and the service quote generation process. It retrieves data from various databases, correlates it with customer location information, and prepares service quotes automatically, simplifying the overall system complexity while maintaining data completeness.
3Productivity
If the system integrates external and internal databases with visualization tools, then data processing efficiency improves, but the initial setup and integration costs increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by pre-establishing connections to external and internal databases during the setup phase. The visualization tool is pre-configured with the necessary data retrieval instructions and correlation logic, so that once deployed, it can efficiently process data without requiring ongoing manual integration work, amortizing the initial setup cost over multiple service quote generations.
Data Source
AI summary
Aspects of the present disclosure involve systems, methods, computer program products, for obtaining information concerning a telecommunications network from various databases and/or informational spreadsheets, aggregating the information into a database, and displaying the information to aid in providing a telecommunication service to a customer. In one embodiment, the information in the database may be provided to an administrator of the telecommunications network through a user interface available to the administrator. With the information provided, the administrator may determine the network services available to a potential customer of the network and may generate a plan to provide the services to the customer's location. The information may include one or more connection locations to the telecommunications network and provide an estimated cost to the network and/or the customer for providing the service to the customer, including providing information to a field technician for installation of the service.