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AssigneeBell Atlantic Network Services, Inc.
InventorScott Dulman
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An arrangement (apparatus and method) for enabling subscribers to use an advanced intelligent network (AIN) services to use existing customer premises equipment to remotely provision their services. Subscribers use existing customer premises equipment, such as personal computers, to locally generate transaction data corresponding to AIN services. The transaction data is stored at the customer premises site in a conventional format, such as ASCII. A call from the customer premises equipment is routed to a security access server, also referred to as a firewall server. After complying with the appropriate security protocols, the service request including the transaction data is routed by the firewall server to an access server via a packet switched network. The access server receives the service request from the customer premises equipment in the conventional format. The access server translates the service request into one or more protocols used by network elements that provide the requested service. The access server routes the translated service requests to various AIN elements as needed to implement the service request, for example integrated service control point (ISCP) and one or more central office switches. The disclosed arrangement is particularly effective for AIN service applications requiring user input of a large amount of transaction data, such as a portable number calling application.
In an advanced intelligent network (AIN) comprising a plurality of AIN elements, at least one of said plurality of AIN elements receiving and storing data in order to activate, modify, or delete AIN services for customers a plurality of network access points, and a plurality of communication links connecting the network access points and connecting terminal equipment including a computer based system for managing AIN services at a customer location to a corresponding one of the network access points, a system for changing AIN services from a service request message generated by the terminal equipment at the customer location, the system comprising:
In an advanced intelligent network (AIN) comprising a plurality of AIN elements, at least one of said plurality of AIN elements receiving and storing data in order to activate, modify, or delete AIN services for customers, a plurality of network access points, and a plurality of communication links connecting the network access points and connecting terminal equipment including a computer based system for managing AIN services at a customer location to a corresponding one of the network access points, a system for changing AIN services from a service request message generated by the terminal equipment at the customer location, the system comprising:
A system comprising:
In an intelligent communication network having a plurality of programmable nodes, communication links between at least a portion of said programmable nodes, and a packet switched network comprising a proxy server and an access server for transporting service configuration data between the programmable nodes, a method for changing customized communications services for users of the intelligent communication network from customer premises equipment using computer software for managing AIN services connected to a network access point, the method comprising the steps of:
In an intelligent communication network having a plurality of switches, an integrated services control point (ISCP), signaling links between at least a portion of said switches and said ISCP, and a packet switched network comprising a proxy server and an access server for transporting service configuration data between the ISCP and said switches, a method for activating customized communications services for new users of the intelligent communication network from customer premises equipment connected to a first switch, the method comprising the steps of:
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