Handing a request relating to a service
AssigneeTeliaSonera AB
InventorsTero Jalkanen, Jussi Laukkanen, Niclas Svahnström
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Abstract
In a multi-service communication environment, when a communication establishment request is received (8-4), the request containing a service identifier and relating to a service to be invoked between a sender of the request and a recipient to whom the request is targeted, interconnection information on the service is checked (8-5, 8-6) for, how to handle the request taking into account at least the sender's operator; and the request is handled (8-7) according to an outcome of the checking. The interconnection information may contain policy rules and/or operator-specific service identifiers.
Claims23
A method comprising:
- receiving a communication establishment request relating to a service to be invoked between a sender of the request and a recipient to whom the request is targeted,
- checking, in response to the request containing a service identifier indicating the service, interconnection information on the service for how to handle the request, taking into account at least the sender's operator;
- and
- handling the request according to an outcome of the checking.
A telecommunications system comprising:
- an apparatus via which a communication establishment request relating to a service to be invoked between a sender of a request and a recipient to whom the request is targeted is routed,
- a database containing interconnection information on the service;
- wherein the apparatus is arranged to retrieve, in response to receiving the request, the interconnection information from the database using at least the sender's operator and a service identifier in the request as search keys, to use the interconnection information to conclude as to how to handle the request, and to handle the request accordingly.
An apparatus comprising
- at least one processor;
- and
- memory including at least one software routine,
- the memory and the at least one software routine are configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least to:
- receive a communication establishment request for a service;
- detect, in response to the request containing a service identifier, that the request relates to a service to be invoked between a sender of a request and a recipient to whom the request is targeted;
- retrieve, in response to said detection, interconnection information on the service using at least the sender's operator and the service identifier as search keys;
- and
- handle the request using the retrieved interconnection information.
An apparatus comprising
- at least one processor;
- and
- memory including at least one software routine,
- the memory and the last least one software routine are configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least to:
- receive a message from a sender to be forwarded to a recipient;
- detect that the message contains a service identifier as an attribute;
- retrieve, in response to said detection, a service identifier used by the recipient's operator for the service, using at least the receiver's operator and the service identifier in the message as search keys;
- and
- replace the service identifier in the message with the retrieved service identifier.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.