Telephonic communications – Special services – Service profile
Reexamination Certificate
1997-05-22
2001-11-27
Hong, Harry S. (Department: 2642)
Telephonic communications
Special services
Service profile
C379S201050, C379S201120, C379S207020, C379S221080, C700S099000, C709S241000, C709S241000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06324275
ABSTRACT:
TECHNICAL FIELD OF THE INVENTION
This invention is related in general to the field of telecommunications. More particularly, the invention is related to a system and method for total telecommunications service commissioning.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
In the current telephony environment, when a telecommunications services provider desires to provide a new service to its telephone customers, only the telecommunications equipment manufacturer and vendor has the knowledge and expertise to develop and deploy the new service. Because past and current telecommunications system architecture and implementation, the deployment of new services is a slow and time-consuming process. With the advent of the Intelligent Network (IN) and Advanced Intelligent Network (AIN), which include a provisioning of a service creation environment (SCE), new service definitions may be readily created and provided to the service control point (SCP) for execution, and to the service management system (SMS) for management. However, there are many other business functions related to service deployment that lag behind. For example, the billing, sales, marketing, and customer support departments all require the capability to support the new service in the same rapid manner to fully deploy the newly-created services.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
Accordingly, it is desirable to provide for a total commissioning of telecommunications services, from the specification of the service logic and data, to the specification of the information and logic necessary to manage and support the services.
In one aspect of the invention, a system for commissioning telecommunications services includes a first toolkit for building a service logic program, and a second toolkit for building a service management program, where the service management program implements a support service for the service logic program. A distribution network node is used to receive and distribute the service logic program and service management programs to (i) a service logic execution environment residing in a telecommunications network node that executes the service logic program and (ii) a management logic execution environment for executing the service management program.
In another aspect of the invention, a method for commissioning telecommunications services includes the steps of building a service logic program, and building a service management program, where the service management program implements a support service for the service logic program. Then distributing the service logic program and service management program to at least one service logic execution environment residing in a telecommunications network node and to at least one management logic execution environment, where they are executed, respectively.
A technical advantage of the present invention is the ability to rapidly design, create, and deploy new services in the telecommunications network to meet the needs of the network, front office systems, and back office systems.
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Hong Harry S.
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