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System and method for creating, transfering, and monitoring services in a telecommunication system
Assignee: Intellectual Ventures II LLC
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Filing: 1995-03-17
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Granted: 1996-01-02
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Expires: 2015-03-17
Abstract
Abstract A system for creating, transferring, and monitoring services in a telecommunication system includes a service creation and management application and a service execution application. Services are created as call processing records, each call processing record comprises call processing nodes, branches and call variables. An interface specification is provided which permits the creation and management application to communicate with the execution application at a high level. Call processing records, data, and management information to be exchanged between the creation and management application and the execution application are encoded in accordance with the interface specification to permit the effective and efficient communication between the two applications and to permit the system to activate, monitor, trace, audit, and manage telecommunication services.
Inventors
- 👤 Zaher A. Nazif
- 👤 Subramanya K. Shastry
- 👤 Susan K. K. Man
- 👤 Edith H. Chu
- 👤 Francis Y. Chu
- 👤 Gregory M. Fisher
- 👤 Mohammad S. Nassirpour
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
Data Source
google_patents
Last Synchronized
2026-10-31 12:07
CPC Classifications
H; H04; H04Q; H04Q3/00; H04Q3/0016; H04Q3/0062; H04Q3/007; H04M; H04M3/00; H04M3/42; H04M3/42136; H04M3/42144; H04Q3/0029; H04Q3/0054; H04M2207/00; H04M2207/12; H04Q2213/00; H04Q2213/13149; H04Q2213/1316; H04Q2213/135; H04Q2213/13503; H04Q2213/13517; H04Q2213/13525; H04Q2213/13545
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 18
Claim 1
Independent Claim
237 words
A method for controlling a telephone switching network including: a management processor having a graphics terminal for creating a graphical representation of a telephone service which is then stored in binary form as a call processing record, a control processor having a memory, a plurality of telephones each having a corresponding telephone number, and a switching system coupled to the plurality of telephones, the method comprising the steps, executed by the management processor of: retrieving said call processing record; translating said call processing record from binary form into data structure form; encoding, in accordance with an interface specification, each data structure form of a call processing record into a machine independent data transfer syntax form; sending the machine independent data transfer syntax form of the call processing record to the control processor; wherein the method further comprises the steps, executed by the control processor, of: receiving said machine independent data transfer syntax form of the call processing record; decoding, in accordance with the interface specification, each of said machine independent data transfer syntax form of the call processing record received in the receiving step to generate a plurality of service procedures; storing the plurality of service procedures in the memory; detecting a telephone call; selecting one of the plurality of service procedures stored in the memory according to a telephone number corresponding to the telephone call; and executing the selected service procedure to control the switching network.
Claim 2
Independent Claim
237 words
A method for controlling a telephone switching network including: a management processor having a graphics terminal for creating a graphical representation of a telephone service which is then stored in binary form as a call processing record, a control processor having a memory, a plurality of telephones each having a corresponding telephone number, and a switching system coupled to the plurality of telephones, the method comprising the steps, executed by the management processor of: retrieving said call processing record; translating said call processing record from binary form into data structure form; encoding, in accordance with an interface specification, each data structure form of a call processing record into a machine independent data transfer syntax form; sending the machine independent data transfer syntax form of the call processing record to the control processor; wherein the method further comprises the steps, executed by the control processor, of: receiving said machine independent data transfer syntax form of the call processing record; decoding, in accordance with the interface specification, each of said machine independent data transfer syntax form of the call processing record received in the receiving step to generate a plurality of service procedures; storing the plurality of service procedures in the memory; detecting a telephone call; selecting one of the plurality of service procedures stored in the memory according to a telephone number corresponding to the telephone call; and executing the selected service procedure to control the switching network.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
69 words
The method of claim 1, wherein the decoding step includes the substeps of: generating a service procedure including a logic part having a plurality of instructions; and a data storage part corresponding to the logic part, and wherein the executing step includes the substeps of reading an instruction from the logic part; and interpreting the instruction read in the reading step and writing data into the data storage part.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
88 words
The method of claim 1, wherein the decoding step includes the substeps of: generating a service procedure including a logic part having a plurality of instructions, each instruction having a respective instruction identifier, one of the instructions containing the instruction indentifier of a subsequent instruction; and a data storage part corresponding to the logic part, and wherein the executing step includes the substeps of reading an instruction from the logic part; and interpreting the instruction read in the reading step and writing data into the data storage part.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
40 words
The method of claim 1, wherein the decoding step includes the substeps of: generating a service procedure including a plurality of logic parts; and a plurality of data storage parts, each data storage part corresponding to a respective logic part.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
33 words
The method of claim 4, wherein the decoding step further includes the substep of: generating the service procedure to include a common data part corresponding to each of the plurality of logic parts.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
37 words
The method of claim 1, wherein the sending step includes the substep of: embedding said machine independent data transfer syntax form of said call processing procedure in a message having a certain format; and sending the message.
Claim 8
Independent Claim
190 words
A system for controlling a telephone network having a plurality of telephones, each telephone capable of originating a phone call, the system comprising: graphical means for creating a call processing record for a customized telephone service; means for encoding said call processing record, using an interface specification, into a plurality of memory structures; means for sending the plurality of memory structures to a remotely located control processor; means for receiving at said control processor a plurality of memory structures representing service procedures; means for decoding, in accordance with the interface specification, each of the plurality of first memory structures received from the means for receiving to generate a plurality of service procedures; means for storing the service procedures created by said means for decoding; means, responsive to a telephone call originating from one of the telephones, for selecting one of the plurality of service procedures according to a telephone number identifying either a source or destination address of the telephone call; means for executing the selected service procedure by writing a value to the memory location defined by the variable corresponding to the procedure and subsequently reading the memory location.
Claim 9
Independent Claim
190 words
A system for controlling a telephone network having a plurality of telephones, each telephone capable of originating a phone call, the system comprising: graphical means for creating a call processing record for a customized telephone service; means for encoding said call processing record, using an interface specification, into a plurality of memory structures; means for sending the plurality of memory structures to a remotely located control processor; means for receiving at said control processor a plurality of memory structures representing service procedures; means for decoding, in accordance with the interface specification, each of the plurality of first memory structures received from the means for receiving to generate a plurality of service procedures; means for storing the service procedures created by said means for decoding; means, responsive to a telephone call originating from one of the telephones, for selecting one of the plurality of service procedures according to a telephone number identifying either a source or destination address of the telephone call; means for executing the selected service procedure by writing a value to the memory location defined by the variable corresponding to the procedure and subsequently reading the memory location.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
42 words
The system for controlling a telephone network of claim 7, wherein each of multiple ones of the plurality of service procedures defines a graph having nodes and branches; and wherein the executing means includes means for following a path in the graph.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim
31 words
The system of claim 7, further including means for generating a service procedure by processing a graph data structure; and means for sending the generated service procedure to the receiving means.
Claim 12
Dependent Claim
17 words
The system of claim 9, further including means for sending an audit message to the executing means.
Claim 13
Dependent Claim
23 words
The system of claim 7, further including means, responsive to one of the telephones, for changing a service procedure in the storing means.
Claim 14
Dependent Claim
35 words
The system of claim 7, wherein the system further includes means for receiving an audit message; means for processing an audit message by sending a message indicating a content of the service procedure storing means.
Claim 15
Independent Claim
313 words
A method of controlling a telephone switching network including: a management processor having a graphics terminal, a control processor having a memory, and a switching system coupled to a plurality of telephones, the method of comprising the steps, executed by the management processor of: a first step of sending a plurality of table memory structures to the control processor, each table memory structure having a respective table identifier; displaying a plurality of graphs on the graphics terminal; encoding, in accordance with an interface specification each of the plurality of graphs to generate a plurality of first memory structures; a second step of sending the plurality of first memory structures to the control processor; wherein the method further comprises the steps, executed by the control processor of: a first step of receiving the plurality of table memory structures sent in the first sending step; a first step of storing the plurality of table memory structures, received in the first step, in the memory; a third step of receiving the plurality of first memory structures sent in the sending step; decoding, in accordance with the interface specification, each of the plurality of first memory structures received in the receiving step to generate a plurality of service procedures, one of the service procedures including an instruction having a table identifier; a second step of storing the plurality of service procedures in the memory; detecting a telephone call; selecting one of the plurality of service procedures stored in the memory according to a telephone number identifying either the source or destination address of the telephone call; and executing the selected service procedure to control the switching network, including the substeps of recognizing the instruction having the table identifier, accessing a table memory structure stored in the first storing step, corresponding to the table identifier, and retrieving from said table memory structure information for executing said service procedure.
Claim 16
Independent Claim
313 words
A method of controlling a telephone switching network including: a management processor having a graphics terminal, a control processor having a memory, and a switching system coupled to a plurality of telephones, the method of comprising the steps, executed by the management processor of: a first step of sending a plurality of table memory structures to the control processor, each table memory structure having a respective table identifier; displaying a plurality of graphs on the graphics terminal; encoding, in accordance with an interface specification each of the plurality of graphs to generate a plurality of first memory structures; a second step of sending the plurality of first memory structures to the control processor; wherein the method further comprises the steps, executed by the control processor of: a first step of receiving the plurality of table memory structures sent in the first sending step; a first step of storing the plurality of table memory structures, received in the first step, in the memory; a third step of receiving the plurality of first memory structures sent in the sending step; decoding, in accordance with the interface specification, each of the plurality of first memory structures received in the receiving step to generate a plurality of service procedures, one of the service procedures including an instruction having a table identifier; a second step of storing the plurality of service procedures in the memory; detecting a telephone call; selecting one of the plurality of service procedures stored in the memory according to a telephone number identifying either the source or destination address of the telephone call; and executing the selected service procedure to control the switching network, including the substeps of recognizing the instruction having the table identifier, accessing a table memory structure stored in the first storing step, corresponding to the table identifier, and retrieving from said table memory structure information for executing said service procedure.
Claim 17
Dependent Claim
33 words
The method according to claim 13, wherein the second sending step includes the substeps of: embedding one of the first memory structures in a message having a certain format; and sending the message.
Claim 18
Dependent Claim
33 words
The method according to claim 14, wherein the first sending step includes the substeps of: embedding one of the table structures in another message having the certain structure; and sending the other message.
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