Inventors:
Srinivas Balabhadrapatruni - Westford MA, US
Srinivas Loke - Westford MA, US
Prasad Dorbala - Lexington MA, US
Satish Yellanki - Lowell MA, US
Sunil Kotagiri - Lowell MA, US
Deepika Gupta - Acton MA, US
De Wu - Nashua NH, US
Ravi Kumar - Shrewsbury MA, US
Kishore Ramasayam - Lowell MA, US
Vikram Saksena - Acton MA, US
Prashant Saxena - Nashua NH, US
Radu Craioveanu - Hooksett NH, US
Dinesh Lokhande - Marlboro NJ, US
Zhenyu Li - Acton MA, US
Subrahmanyam Dravida - Shrewsbury MA, US
Dev Gupta - Concord MA, US
David O'Hare - Nashua NH, US
International Classification:
G06F017/60
Abstract:
In a computer network, services are provisioned for a user over the network, typically via a series of messages. Depending on the particular service to be provisioned many network entities may be concerned with the provision of a particular service. However, an initiator of a service request may be unaware of all the network entities concerned with a service provision request. A system which receives a single request for service provisioning from an initiator, determines each network entity corresponding to the request from a common repository of network entities, and applies the operations concerned with the service provision request at each corresponding network entity, allows a service to be provisioned without manually searching and examining the network to determine the network entities concerned with a particular service provision request. The system thereby alleviates manual application of the service provisioning request at each of the network entities, allowing a single discrete command, such as a mouse click, to provision the service.