Conditional message routing in a telecommunications network
AssigneeBritish Telecommunications public limited company
InventorPhilip Christian
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Abstract
A computer implemented method of selective transmission of a communications message from a home telecommunications network to a visited telecommunications network for delivery to a subscriber device roaming via the visited network includes receiving the message at the home network; identifying a communications component of the visited network to which the messages is to be routed; evaluating a reliability metric for the communications component; and forwarding the message to the communications component of the visited network for delivery to the subscriber device in dependence on the evaluated reliability metric.
Claims9
A computer implemented method of selective transmission of a communications message from a home telecommunications network to a visited telecommunications network for delivery to a subscriber device roaming via the visited network, the method comprising:
- receiving the communications message at the home network;
- identifying a communications component of the visited network to which the communications message is to be routed;
- evaluating a reliability metric for the communications component;
- and
- forwarding the communications message to the communications component of the visited network for delivery to the subscriber device in dependence on the evaluated reliability metric by:
- receiving one or more reliability criteria from an originator of the communications message, and
- forwarding the communications message to the communications component based on the reliability criteria evaluated using the reliability metric,
- wherein communications messages which are not forwarded are retained for a re-evaluation of the reliability metric at a subsequent time.
A computer system comprising:
- a processor and memory storing computer program code for selective transmission of a communications message from a home telecommunications network to a visited telecommunications network for delivery to a subscriber device roaming via the visited network by:
- receiving the communications message at the home network;
- identifying a communications component of the visited network to which the communications message is to be routed;
- evaluating a reliability metric for the communications component;
- and
- forwarding the communications message to the communications component of the visited network for delivery to the subscriber device in dependence on the evaluated reliability metric by:
- receiving one or more reliability criteria from an originator of the communications message, and
- forwarding the communications message to the communications component based on the reliability criteria evaluated using the reliability metric,
- wherein communications messages which are not forwarded are retained for a re-evaluation of the reliability metric at a subsequent time.
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a computer program element comprising computer program code to, when loaded into a computer system and executed thereon, cause the computer system to perform selective transmission of a communications message from a home telecommunications network to a visited telecommunications network for delivery to a subscriber device roaming via the visited network by:
- receiving the communications message at the home network;
- identifying a communications component of the visited network to which the communications message is to be routed;
- evaluating a reliability metric for the communications component;
- and
- forwarding the communications message to the communications component of the visited network for delivery to the subscriber device in dependence on the evaluated reliability metric by:
- receiving one or more reliability criteria from an originator of the communications message, and
- forwarding the communications message to the communications component based on the reliability criteria evaluated using the reliability metric,
- wherein communications messages which are not forwarded are retained for a re-evaluation of the reliability metric at a subsequent time.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.