System for providing communications services in a telecommunications network
AssigneeSprint Communications Company L.P.
InventorsThomas W. Butler, Lloyd K. Hacker, Sanjiv B. Jadhav, Alan B. Jessup, Renee J. Keffer, Isaac W. Lamm, Michael A. O'Brien, Charles C. Weber
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Abstract
A configuration for a telecommunications network is disclosed in which service requests from subscribers are received into the network in a service manager which distributes the requests to appropriate service modules for composition of network instructions usable by network elements for providing telecommunications services corresponding to the requests.
Claims19
In a telecommunications network operable for providing communications services using network elements, a method of operating the network comprising the steps of:
- (a) configuring a plurality of service modules operable for processing service requests concerning corresponding communications services;
- (b) receiving service requests concerning communications services into the network by way of a service manager configured so that substantially all of said requests received in the network are received within said service manager;
- (c) determining in said service manager in response to receipt of said requests which of said service modules are operable for processing said service requests and selecting said modules for receipt of said requests;
- (d) transferring said service requests from said service manager to said selected service modules in response to selection thereof;
- (e) receiving said service requests into said selected service modules and, in response, developing therein network instructions usable by network elements for implementing communications services corresponding to said service requests;
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- (f) providing said network instructions to said network elements in response to development thereof and thereby providing communications services in the network corresponding to said service requests.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.