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AssigneeBritish Telecommunications public limited company
InventorRichard P Swale
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Traffic in an intelligent communications network having a distributed processing environment is controlled using software objects corresponding to respective components of the network. Each object is associated with a respective service element parameter (SEP) and writes its SEP to a SEP field of each generated request. In the event that the request is generated in response to receipt at the object of a request sent from another object, the contents of the SEP field of the received request may also be included in the SEP field of the generated request. While an object is in overload state it rejects newly received requests if the contents of their SEP fields is less than a threshold. If the object is already handling a request, a newly received request will take priority if it has a higher SEP value. The request which gives way may be rejected, or may have its processing suspended.
A method of controlling traffic in an intelligent communications network having a distributed processing environment using software objects, the method comprising:
An intelligent communications network having a distributed arrangement of service components which perform call processing by distributed processing involving the sending of requests, wherein each service component comprises:
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