US 6,556,996 B1Granted

Service package application and a service activation manager for use with a service control point in an advanced intelligent network

AssigneeAmeritech Corporation

InventorsJames Daniel Kovarik, Gordon Lynn Blumenschein, Ronald Stephan Urban

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Abstract

A service package application program employing a service activation manager for use with a service control point in an advanced intelligent network is disclosed. The service package application program is employed to provide multiple services to subscribing users. The services are implemented by one or more decision graph nodes stored as a plurality of independent functional blocks. The services are defined by logic maps specifying logically ordered combinations of the decision graph nodes. The service activation manager includes: a subscriber identifier in communication with a subscriber database; a service identifier in communication with a trigger database; an active services list compiler; and a service manager.

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Dependent claims

A service package application for use with a service control point in an advanced intelligent network, the service package application comprising:

a first database storing a plurality of decision graph nodes, each decision graph node comprising a routine for performing at least one predefined function;
a first logic map identifying a first logically ordered combination of the decision graph nodes stored in the first database for processing a phone call in a first predefined manner, wherein executing at least a subset of the decision graph nodes in the first logically ordered combination performs a first phone call service;
a second logic map identifying a second logically ordered combination of the decision graph nodes stored in the first database for processing a phone call in a second predefined manner, the second predefined manner being different from the first predefined manner, wherein executing at least a subset of the decision graph nodes in the second logically ordered combination performs a second phone call service, the second phone call service being different from the first phone call service;
a second database storing the first and second logic maps;
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a service activation manager in communication with the first and second databases, the service activation manager being responsive to phone calls requiring processing in accordance with the first phone call service to retrieve the first logic map from the second database and to retrieve at least one of the decision graph nodes identified in the first logic map from the first database, and being responsive to phone calls requiring processing in accordance with the second phone call service to retrieve the second logic map from the second database and to retrieve at least one of the decision graph nodes identified in the second logic map from the first database.

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