A real-time device data management (RTNDD) system for managing access to data describing devices in a telecommunications network. The RTNDD system maintains a partition data structure for each device. The partition data structure has a header section and a port data section. The header section contains...http://www.google.fr/patents/US6105031?utm_source=gb-gplus-shareBrevet US6105031 - System for real-time device data management