Method for provisioning subscribers, products, and services in a broadband network
View Patent ↗A method for provisioning subscribers, products, and services in a broadband network includes establishing a directory system for storing information about a plurality of subscribers. The directory system includes a subscriber namespace and a device namespace. A subscriber is added by instantiating a subscriber object for the subscriber in the subscriber namespace. Each available service has its own state in the directory system to provide a multi-state provisioning system that permits granular management services.
1. A method comprising:
receiving, at a computing device, an add user command;
adding a user by instantiating a user object for the user in a user namespace;
adding a device related to the user by instantiating a device object for the user in a device namespace, wherein the device object comprises information related to user equipment associated with the user;
retrieving configuration parameters that identify one or more services available to the user;
for each of the one or more services available to the user, adding a service for the user by instantiating a corresponding service object for the user in a service namespace, resulting in one or more instantiated service objects, each of the one or more instantiated service objects comprises a state identifier; and
populating each of the one or more instantiated service objects and the device object at least partially based on the configuration parameters, said populating comprising setting the state identifier of each of the one or more instantiated service objects to indicate an active service state.
2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
establishing a directory system for storing information about a plurality of users, the directory system including the user namespace, the device namespace, and the service namespace.
3. The method of claim 1 further comprising:
determining a service based on a product that corresponds to the configuration parameters.
4. The method of claim 3 , further comprising:
setting a state of a service object corresponding to the determined service so as to indicate that the determined service is active.
5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the one or more services available to the user comprises an Internet service.
6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the one or more services available to the user comprises a voice service.
7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the one or more services available to the user includes comprises a messaging service.
8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the add user command is received from a billing system.
9. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
receiving an add equipment request, wherein adding the device related to the user is performed in response to receiving the add equipment request.
10. A system comprising:
a directory component storing information about a plurality of users, the directory component including a user namespace, a service namespace, and a device namespace; and
a requesting component configured to send one or more commands to cause the directory component to:
add a user by instantiating a user object for the user in the user namespace,
add a device related to the user by instantiating a device object for the user in the device namespace, wherein the device object comprises information related to user equipment associated with the user,
retrieve configuration parameters that identify one or more services available to the user;
for each of the one or more services available to the user, add a service for the user by instantiating a corresponding service object for the user in the service namespace, resulting in one or more instantiated service objects, each of the one or more instantiated service objects comprises a state identifier; and
populate each of the one or more instantiated service objects and the device object at least partially based on the configuration parameters, said populating comprising setting the state identifier of each of the one or more instantiated service objects to indicate an active service state.
11. The system of claim 10 , wherein the one or more commands further cause the directory component to:
determine a service based on a product that corresponds to the configuration parameters.
12. The system of claim 11 , wherein the one or more commands further cause the directory component to:
set a state of a service object corresponding to the determined service so as to indicate that the determined service is active.
13. The system of claim 10 , wherein the one or more services available to the user comprises an Internet service.
14. The system of claim 10 , wherein the one or more services available to the user comprises a voice service.
15. The system of claim 10 , wherein the one or more services available to the user comprises a messaging service.
16. The system of claim 10 , wherein the requesting component comprises a billing component of a network.
17. The system of claim 10 , wherein the one or more commands further cause the directory component to:
receive an add equipment request, wherein adding the device related to the user is performed in response to receiving the add equipment request.
18. A method comprising:
establishing a directory system comprising a service namespace;
determining, by a computing device, a product for a user, the product identifying one or more services available to the user;
retrieving configuration parameters corresponding to the product;
for each of the one or more services available to the user, adding a service for the user by instantiating a corresponding service object for the user in the service namespace, resulting in one or more instantiated service objects, each of the one or more instantiated service objects including a state; and
populating each of the one or more instantiated service objects at least partially based on the configuration parameters, comprising:
for each of the one or more services available to the user, setting the state of each corresponding instantiated service object to indicate that the service is in an active state.