Carolyn Linda Champion

US Patent:

7941520, May 10, 2011

Filed:

Sep 28, 2001

Appl. No.:

09/964451

Inventors:

Joshua W. Kite - Atlanta GA, US
Ellen W. Brown - Pensacola FL, US
Patricia Rankins Askew - Huntersville NC, US
Rick Quinn - Davie FL, US
Mark K. Zickefoose - Orlando FL, US
James P. Womack - Grand Coteau LA, US
Greg Cowart - Woodstock GA, US
William L. Pfister - Winchester KY, US
Ted J. Carlson - Nashville TN, US
Gary P. Ray - Trussville AL, US
Joseph V. Lillie - Lafayette LA, US
Lawrence C. Bratton - Monroe LA, US
Carolyn F. Champion - Snellville GA, US
John Kenneth Breard - Monroe LA, US
Robert E. Dabney - Irmo SC, US
Lynn Bainbridge Horton - Cumming GA, US
Greg Lake - Kennesaw GA, US
Watson Dorn, Jr. - Lilburn GA, US
Elias Rodriguez - Snellville GA, US
Russell T. Smith - Snellville GA, US

Assignee:

BellSouth Intellectual Property Corp. - Wilmington DE

International Classification:

G06F 15/173

US Classification:

709224, 709217, 709218, 709219, 709223, 379247, 707 1, 707 2, 7071041, 715736

Abstract:

A system and method of managing telephone network facilities. A telephone network facilities database, such as LEIS, is accessed and selected information, including wire center location, equipment and slot information stored therein, is extracted and re-stored in a relational database. Additional fields in the relational database are populated based on the information extracted from the telephone network facilities database. The additional fields represent working ADSL and T1 facilities, ADSL and T1 capacity, and ADSL and T1 availability. A graphical user interface is provided that displays several views of the data in the relational database. Color coding aspects of the graphical user interface indicates capacity levels.