Automated VoIP Network Configuration Platform
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Solution Overview
Problem
The complexity of provisioning and configuring packetized voice networks, particularly in distributed switching architectures, leads to inefficient and manually intensive processes, as traditional methods are not adapted for modern VoIP systems with multiple switching elements.
Innovation Solution
An automated configuration platform that collects and analyzes data from switching elements, providing a graphical user interface for users to manage and configure VoIP-enabled networks, enabling rapid provisioning and troubleshooting by polling equipment, correlating datasets, and offering selective granularity views.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If traditional provisioning methods are used for circuit-switched systems, then the process works for traditional telephony, but it lacks applicability to packetized voice systems with distributed switching architecture
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an automated configuration platform as an intermediary system that collects data from multiple switching elements, correlates datasets, and provides configuration capabilities. This mediator bridges the gap between traditional provisioning methods and modern distributed VoIP architectures, enabling centralized management of distributed systems without requiring manual configuration of each switching element.
2Productivity
If manual configuration methods are used for distributed switching elements, then each element can be configured individually, but the process becomes manually intensive and inefficient
Solution Approach 1:
The automated configuration platform performs self-service by automatically collecting data from switching elements, correlating datasets, and generating configurations without requiring manual intervention for each switching element. The system serves itself by identifying relationships between switching elements and automatically determining configuration parameters, thereby eliminating manual intensive tasks while maintaining high provisioning efficiency.
3Loss of information
If data is collected from multiple switching elements, then comprehensive network information is obtained, but the complexity of managing and analyzing the data increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges data from multiple switching elements into a unified configuration platform that correlates datasets and presents integrated views. By combining data collection, correlation, and configuration capabilities into a single platform, the system maintains complete network information while reducing the complexity of data management through centralized processing and automated correlation of switching element data.
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AI summary
An approach is provided for analyzing a hybrid telephony network. A plurality of nodes within a network is polled for configuration information, wherein the nodes are configured to establish packetized voice sessions. The configuration information is correlated. A view of the nodes and associated circuits is presented to a user for configuring one or more of the nodes based on the correlation.