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Service provision in a telecommunications network
Assignee: British Telecommunications PLC
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Filing: 1996-03-22
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Granted: 2000-05-30
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Expires: 2016-03-22
Abstract
Abstract A telecommunications network of the kind including service control points which permit differing services to be provided to customers centralized storage of date defining service provided to each customer is avoided. Whenever an update of service provided to a particular customer is required, such update is carried out centrally at a service creation point. In the service creation point, data defining the current executable code deployed at the service control point for that customer is recovered to enable recreation of the existing executable code to be carried out. The current code may then be modified regardless of which service creation point is carrying out the modification.
Inventors
- 👤 Philip P Cretch
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
Data Source
google_patents
Last Synchronized
2026-11-06 18:08
CPC Classifications
H; H04; H04Q; H04Q3/00; H04Q3/0016; H04Q3/0029; H04Q3/005; H04M; H04M3/00; H04M3/42; H04M3/4228; H04M3/42297; H04Q2213/00; H04Q2213/1305; H04Q2213/135; H04Q2213/13513; H04Q2213/13528; H04Q2213/13535
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 6
Claim 1
Independent Claim
111 words
A telecommunications network including: a plurality of switching units, each controlled by an intelligent control system, at least one service control point adapted to provide a translation from data defining a first telephone number to data defining a second telephone number, and one or more service creation points, each capable of acting on data in the service control point(s) to modify translations, wherein, each service creation point includes means arranged to recover existing service defining data from the respective service control point to permit an exact replica of the current service provided to the particular customer to be constructed prior to effecting modification of service relating to a specified customer number.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
111 words
A telecommunications network including: a plurality of switching units, each controlled by an intelligent control system, at least one service control point adapted to provide a translation from data defining a first telephone number to data defining a second telephone number, and one or more service creation points, each capable of acting on data in the service control point(s) to modify translations, wherein, each service creation point includes means arranged to recover existing service defining data from the respective service control point to permit an exact replica of the current service provided to the particular customer to be constructed prior to effecting modification of service relating to a specified customer number.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
21 words
A telecommunications network as in claim 1, wherein: the service defining data is embedded as dummy instruction information within executable code.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
23 words
A method as in claim 2, wherein; the data defining the respective executable code is encoded as dummy instructions within the executable code.
Claim 5
Independent Claim
103 words
A method of selectively activating services to customers of a communications network, said method including storing at a service control point respective executable code defining services to be provided for each customer, providing for each customer respective customer-modifiable data to permit the respective customer to determine how defined services are used, and amending the services provided to a respective customer by: copying data defining the respective executable code to a remote service creation point, recreating the respective executable code at the service creation point, amending the executable code at the service creation point, and deploying the amended code at the service control point.
Claim 6
Independent Claim
103 words
A method of selectively activating services to customers of a communications network, said method including storing at a service control point respective executable code defining services to be provided for each customer, providing for each customer respective customer-modifiable data to permit the respective customer to determine how defined services are used, and amending the services provided to a respective customer by: copying data defining the respective executable code to a remote service creation point, recreating the respective executable code at the service creation point, amending the executable code at the service creation point, and deploying the amended code at the service control point.
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