US6317428B1
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Method of providing a service to users of a telecommunication network, service control facility, and processing node
Assignee: WSOU Investments LLC
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Filing: 1998-04-14
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Granted: 2001-11-13
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Expires: 2018-04-14
Abstract
Abstract The invention concerns a method for providing a service for users of a telecommunication network. Service calls requesting the execution of the service for an respective one of the users are routed to a service switching exchange of the telecommunication network or are respectively routed to one of several service switching exchanges of the telecommunication network. A corespondent service request is sent by the respective service switching exchange, that has received the respective service call, to a service control facility or to one of several possible service control facilities. For each such service request received from the or each service switching exchange a service session object, which is able to interact and communicate via an object infrastructure with other objects in a object oriented computing environment, is created within the or each service control facility and the respective service session object controls the execution of the service for the respective service call.
Inventors
- 👤 Nicolas Mercouroff
- 👤 Alban Couturier
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
Data Source
google_patents
Last Synchronized
2026-11-08 02:02
CPC Classifications
H; H04; H04Q; H04Q3/00; H04Q3/0016; H04Q3/0029; H04M; H04M3/00; H04M3/42; H04M3/4228
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 22
Claim 1
Independent Claim
138 words
A method of providing a service for users of a telecommunication network, wherein service calls requesting execution of the service for a respective one of the users are routed to one respective service switching exchange of the telecommunication network, and wherein a corresponding service request is sent, by the respective service switching exchange that has received one of the service calls, to a respective service control facility, comprising the following steps: creating within the service control facility a service session object for each of the service requests, and controlling the execution of the service for the respective service call, wherein the service session object is able to interact and communicate via an object infrastructure with other objects in an object oriented computing environment, and wherein the execution of the service is controlled by the respective service session object.
Claim 2
Independent Claim
138 words
A method of providing a service for users of a telecommunication network, wherein service calls requesting execution of the service for a respective one of the users are routed to one respective service switching exchange of the telecommunication network, and wherein a corresponding service request is sent, by the respective service switching exchange that has received one of the service calls, to a respective service control facility, comprising the following steps: creating within the service control facility a service session object for each of the service requests, and controlling the execution of the service for the respective service call, wherein the service session object is able to interact and communicate via an object infrastructure with other objects in an object oriented computing environment, and wherein the execution of the service is controlled by the respective service session object.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
31 words
A method as claimed in claim 1 , characterized in that the service switching exchange communicates with the service control facility according to the communication protocols of the Intelligent Network Architecture.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
37 words
A method as claimed in claim 1 , characterized in that the service session object interacts and communicates as a CORBA object via a CORBA object infrastructure with other objects for controlling the execution of the service.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
30 words
A method as claimed in claim 1 , characterized in that the service control facility controls and carries out the execution of different services for users of the telecommunication network.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
24 words
A method as claimed in claim 1 , characterized in that the creation of each service session object is managed through a factory object.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
26 words
A method as claimed in claim 1 , characterized in that the creation of each service session object is managed by a service dedicated factory object.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
24 words
A method as claimed in claim 5 , characterized in that the factory object implements a life cycle policy for the service session object.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
27 words
A method as claimed in claim 7 , characterized in that the factory object implements a creation on demand life cycle policy for the service session object.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
27 words
A method as claimed in claim 7 , characterized in that the factory object implements an activation on demand life cycle policy for the service session object.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim
28 words
A method as claimed in claim 1 , characterized in that all functions for controlling the execution of the service are implemented by a dedicated CORBA service server.
Claim 12
Dependent Claim
30 words
A method as claimed in claim 1 , characterized in that the service session object has an interface definition which is Transactional Capabilities Application Part mapped over Interface Definition Language.
Claim 13
Dependent Claim
21 words
A method as claimed in claim 1 , characterized in that the service session object directly receives its own message invocations.
Claim 14
Dependent Claim
28 words
A method as claimed in claim 1 , characterized in that the service session object receives Information Networking Architecture messages as message invocations from the service switching exchange.
Claim 15
Dependent Claim
20 words
A method as claimed in claim 1 , characterized in that the service session object runs in its own thread.
Claim 16
Independent Claim
134 words
A method for provisioning execution of a service logic function within a service control facility of a telecommunication system, wherein service requests that request execution of the service logic function are received by the service control facility from at least one service switching exchange of the telecommunication system, comprising the steps of: creating within the service control facility a respective service session object for each of the service requests received from the at least one service switching exchange, and handling the execution of the service logic function for each of the service requests, wherein the service session object is able to interact and communicate via an object infrastructure with other objects in an object oriented computing environment, and wherein the execution of the service logic function is handled by the respective service session object.
Claim 17
Independent Claim
134 words
A method for provisioning execution of a service logic function within a service control facility of a telecommunication system, wherein service requests that request execution of the service logic function are received by the service control facility from at least one service switching exchange of the telecommunication system, comprising the steps of: creating within the service control facility a respective service session object for each of the service requests received from the at least one service switching exchange, and handling the execution of the service logic function for each of the service requests, wherein the service session object is able to interact and communicate via an object infrastructure with other objects in an object oriented computing environment, and wherein the execution of the service logic function is handled by the respective service session object.
Claim 18
Dependent Claim
129 words
A service control facility for connecting to one or several service switching exchanges of a telecommunication network, where the service control facility contains means for receiving service requests, that request the execution of a service for a user of the telecommunication network, from at least one of the service switching exchanges of the telecommunication network, characterized by containing means for creating for each such service request received from the at least one service switching exchange a service session object within the service control facility, means for enabling each service session object to interact and communicate via an object infrastructure with other objects in an object oriented computing environment, and means for executing under control of the respective service session object a service logic function for the respective service request.
Claim 19
Dependent Claim
129 words
A service control facility for connecting to one or several service switching exchanges of a telecommunication network, where the service control facility contains means for receiving service requests, that request the execution of a service for a user of the telecommunication network, from at least one of the service switching exchanges of the telecommunication network, characterized by containing means for creating for each such service request received from the at least one service switching exchange a service session object within the service control facility, means for enabling each service session object to interact and communicate via an object infrastructure with other objects in an object oriented computing environment, and means for executing under control of the respective service session object a service logic function for the respective service request.
Claim 20
Dependent Claim
23 words
The service control facility according to claim 16 , characterized by containing a variable number of processing nodes for processing service session objects.
Claim 21
Dependent Claim
126 words
A processing node for a service control facility connected to one or several service switching exchanges of a telecommunication network, where the processing node contains means for receiving service requests, that request the execution of a service for a user of the telecommunication network, from at least one of the service switching exchanges of the telecommunication network, characterized by containing means for creating for each such service request received from the at least one service switching exchange a service session object, means for enabling each service session object to interact and communicate via an object infrastructure with other objects in an object oriented computing environment, and means for executing under control of the respective service session object a service logic function for the respective service request.
Claim 22
Dependent Claim
126 words
A processing node for a service control facility connected to one or several service switching exchanges of a telecommunication network, where the processing node contains means for receiving service requests, that request the execution of a service for a user of the telecommunication network, from at least one of the service switching exchanges of the telecommunication network, characterized by containing means for creating for each such service request received from the at least one service switching exchange a service session object, means for enabling each service session object to interact and communicate via an object infrastructure with other objects in an object oriented computing environment, and means for executing under control of the respective service session object a service logic function for the respective service request.
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