Data updating method, system and device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9501548-B2
Application number	US-201314427282-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 7, 2013
Priority date	Sep 20, 2012
Publication date	Nov 22, 2016
Grant date	Nov 22, 2016

Abstract

A data updating method is provided, which includes generating Managed Object Instances (MOIs) and an operation identifier of each MOI according to a management operation needed to be performed on an Network Element (NE) device; selecting MOIs in an association relation from the generated MOIs; generating a dynamic MOI and an operation identifier of the dynamic MOI according to the selected MOIs, the dynamic MOI including attribute values corresponding to the operation identifiers of the selected MOIs and the operation identifier of the dynamic MOI including the operation identifiers of the selected MOIs; transmitting the dynamic MOI and the operation identifier of the dynamic MOI to the NE device; and the NE device searches a Managed Object (MO) tree for an MOI node matched with the attribute values of the dynamic MOI after receiving the dynamic MOI and the operation identifier of the dynamic MOI, and updates the matched MOI node according to the operation identifier of the dynamic MOI. A data synchronization system and an NE device are also provided.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A data updating method, comprising:
generating, by an Network Element (NE) management device, Managed Object Instances (MOI) and an operation identifier of each MOI according to a management operation needed to be performed on an NE device;
selecting, by the NE management device, MOIs in an association relation from the generated MOIs;
generating, by the NE management device, a dynamic MOI according to the selected MOIs and generating an operation identifier of the dynamic MOI according to an operation identifier of the selected MOIs, wherein the dynamic MOI comprises attribute values corresponding to operation identifiers of the selected MOIs;
transmitting, by the NE management device, the dynamic MOI and the operation identifier of the dynamic MOI to the NE device;
searching, by the NE device, a Managed Object (MO) tree for an MOI node matched with attribute values of the dynamic MOI after receiving the dynamic MOI and the operation identifier of the dynamic MOI, and
updating, by the NE device, the matched MOI node according to the operation identifier of the dynamic MOI;
wherein the generating, by the NE management device, a dynamic MOI according to the selected MOIs and generating an operation identifier of the dynamic MOI according to an operation identifier of the selected MOIs comprises:
matching the selected MOIs with a dynamic MOC in a dynamic MO template library; and
generating the dynamic MOI corresponding to the selected MOIs according to the matched dynamic MOC, and employing the operation identifiers of the selected MOIs as the operation identifier of the dynamic MOI;
wherein the dynamic MOC in the dynamic MO template library comprises a main attribute and at least one auxiliary attribute, and the attributes included in the dynamic MOC are composed of at least one attribute included in static MOCs in an association relation in a network manager configuration data model.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the selecting MOIs in an association relation from the generated MOIs comprises:
selecting MOIs belonging to a same Managed Object Class (MOC) and with a same operation identifier; or
selecting MOIs belonging to a same MOC; or
selecting MOIs with a same operation identifier.

3. The method according to claim 2 , when the NE management device transmits the dynamic MOI and the operation identifier of the dynamic MOI to the NE device, the method further comprising: transmitting, by the NE management device, a static MOI and an operation identifier of the static MOI to the NE device, wherein the static MOI is in the generated MOIs but is not in any association relation; and
after the NE device receives the static MOI and the operation identifier of the static MOI, the method further comprising: searching the MO tree for the static MOI, and updating the static MOI according to the operation identifier of the static MOI.

4. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the matching the selected MOIs with a dynamic MOC in a dynamic MO template library comprises: searching the dynamic MO template library for a dynamic MOC which comprises attributes of the selected MOIs, and employing a found dynamic MOC as the matched dynamic MOC; and
the generating a dynamic MOI corresponding to the selected MOIs according to the matched dynamic MOC comprises: generating a dynamic MOI comprising a main attribute value and at least one auxiliary attribute value, wherein the main attribute value included in the dynamic MOI is an attribute value of the main attribute in the matched dynamic MOC corresponding to the selected MOIs, and the at least one auxiliary attribute value included in the dynamic MOI are attribute values of the at least one auxiliary attribute in the matched dynamic MOC corresponding to the selected MOIs.

5. The method according to claim 4 , wherein the searching an MO tree for an MOI node matched with attribute values of the dynamic MOI comprises:
searching the MO tree for an MOI node which comprises the main attribute value of the dynamic M 01 ; matching attribute values in an MOI node, which has an association relation with a found MOI node, with the at least one auxiliary attribute value of the dynamic M 01 ; and determining a successfully matched MOI node as the MOI node matched with the attribute values of the dynamic MOI.

6. The method according to claim 1 , when the NE management device transmits the dynamic MOI and the operation identifier of the dynamic MOI to the NE device, the method further comprising: transmitting, by the NE management device, a static MOI and an operation identifier of the static MOI to the NE device, wherein the static MOI is in the generated MOIs but is not in any association relation; and
after the NE device receives the static MOI and the operation identifier of the static MOI, the method further comprising: searching the MO tree for the static MOI, and updating the static MOI according to the operation identifier of the static MOI.

7. The device according to claim 1 , wherein the network manager adaptation module is configured to match the selected MOIs with the dynamic MOC in the dynamic MO template library and generate the dynamic MOI corresponding to the selected MOIs according to the matched dynamic MOC by a following way:
searching the dynamic MO template library for a dynamic MOC which comprises attributes of the selected MOIs, and employing a found dynamic MOC as the matched dynamic MOC; and
generating a dynamic MOI which comprises a main attribute value and at least one auxiliary attribute value, wherein the main attribute value included in the dynamic MOI is an attribute value of the main attribute in the matched dynamic MOC corresponding to the selected MOIs, and the at least one auxiliary attribute value included in the dynamic MOI are attribute values of the at least one auxiliary attribute in the matched dynamic MOC corresponding to the selected MOIs.

8. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the selected MOIs from the generated MOIs have an association relation between each other.

9. A data synchronization system, comprising:
a Network Element (NE) management device, configured:
to generate Managed Object Instances (MOI) and an operation identifier of each MOI according to a management operation needed to be performed on an NE device,
to select MOIs in an association relation from the generated MOIs,
to generate a dynamic MOI according to the selected MOIs and to generate an operation identifier of the dynamic MOI according to an operation identifier of the selected MOIs, wherein the dynamic MOI comprises attribute values corresponding to operation identifiers of the selected MOIs, and
to transmit the dynamic MOI and the operation identifier of the dynamic MOI to the NE device;

and
the NE device, configured:
to search a Managed Object (MO) tree for an MOI node matched with attribute values of the dynamic MOI after receiving the dynamic MOI and the operation identifier of the dynamic MOI, and
to update the matched MOI node according to the operation identifier of the dynamic MOI;

wherein the generating, by the NE management device, a dynamic MOI according to the selected MOIs and generating an operation identifier of the dynamic MOI according to an operation identifier of the selected MOIs comprises:
matching the selected MOIs with a dynamic MOC in a dynamic MO template library; and
generating the dynamic MOI corresponding to the selected MOIs according to the matched dynamic MOC, and employing the operation identifiers of the selected MOIs as the operation identifier of the dynamic MOI;
wherein the dynamic MOC in the dynamic MO template library comprises a main attribute and at least one auxiliary attribute, and th

Assignees

• Zte Corp

Inventors

• Chen Jinchang
• Chen Xiaoping

Classifications

• H04L41/082

  the condition being updates or upgrades of network functionality · CPC title

• G06F17/30864

  Physics · mapped topic

• H04L12/24

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04L41/0233 Primary

  Object-oriented techniques, for representation of network management data, e.g. common object request broker architecture [CORBA] · CPC title

• G06F17/30581 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic