Device and data processing system for establishing services using service profiles, pertaining program and pertaining service profile

• US 20040053611A1
• Filed: 06/20/2003
• Published: 03/18/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 12/21/2000
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Siemens AG
• Original Assignee: Siemens AG
• Inventors: Plagemann, Bernd
• Application Number:
  US10/451,223
• Publication Number:
  US 20040053611A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/432.3
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/2856 Access arrangements, e.g. Internet access asynchronous transfer mode networks H04L12/5601; broadband local area networks H04L12/2801; optical access or distribution networks H04Q11/0067; access to open networks H04L12/5691; digital subscriber line end-user equipment and bit-level processing of data on a PSTN-based network H04M11/00; home network gateways H04L12/2834; wireless access networks H04W
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/2245 Management of the local loop plant
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/42144 by service provider
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 11/0457 Connection protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2213/13039 Asymmetrical two-way transmission, e.g. ADSL, HDSL
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2213/1305 Software aspects
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2213/13095 PIN / Access code, authentication
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2213/13106 Microprocessor, CPU
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2213/13109 Initializing, personal profile
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2213/1313 Metering, billing
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2213/13176 Common channel signaling, CCS7
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2213/13204 Protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2213/13209 ISDN
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2213/13389 LAN, internet

Abstract

The invention relates to a method which uses a global service profile (16). Said global service profile (16) contains features characteristic of telephone profiles (P1, P2) as well as features characteristic of packet network (16) allows for the fast and simple establishment of a combined access to a switched data transmission network and to a packet-switched data transmission network.

Claims

1. Method for setting up services with the assistance of service profiles (16, 18), in which

at least one telephone profile (P1, P2) is stored, containing features which can be used by subscribers in a switched data transmission network,

at least one packet network profile (P3, P4) is stored, containing features which can be used by subscribers in a packet-switched data transmission network,

at least one global profile (16) is stored in a data processing system (12), with at least one telephone profile (P1, P2) and at least one packet network profile (P3, P4) being specified in this global profile,

the global profile (16) is assigned to a subscriber in order to set up for that subscriber an access to the switched transmission network and to the packet-switched network,

the global profile (16), as determined by the assignment, is read together with the profiles specified in it (P1 to P4),

and the features specified in the profiles (P1 to P4) are set up and/or enabled for the subscriber.

2. Method in accordance with claim 1, characterized in that for at least some of the profiles (P3, P4) specified in the global profile (16) a specification (56) is stored which defines a processing sequence, in which the profiles (P1 to P4) must be processed.

3. Method in accordance with claim 1 or 2, characterized in that the details for an ISDN connection and/or the details for ISDN features are contained in a telephone profile (P1),

and/or that the details for an XDSL connection are contained in a telephone profile (P2),

and/or that the details for an Internet service provider are contained in a packet network profile (P3),

and/or that access rights and/or features for the use of a packet network are stored in a packet network profile (P4).

4. Method in accordance with one of the preceding claims, characterized in that depending on the profiles (P1 to P4) which are contained in the global profile (16) and preferably depending on the sequence specification details (56), at least a method (20) for configuring a switching center (100) in the switched network, and a method (30) for configuring a unit (116) for forwarding data packets are automatically or manually carried out.

5. Method in accordance with claim 4, characterized in that depending on a profile (P4) which is stored in the global profile (16) and preferably depending on the sequence specification details (56), a method (36) for accessing a data processing system (18) which administers the access rights and/or features for a packet network is carried out.

6. Method in accordance with claim 4 or 5, characterized in that at least one parameter, determined when a configuration procedure (20) is carried out, is used when a subsequent configuration procedure (30) is carried out, the parameter being preferably a parameter (EQN2) which specifies the port number of an interface via which a subscriber is connected by a connection unit to the switching center (104).

7. Method in accordance with one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the switched data transmission network transmits voice data in time slots in accordance with a time division multiplexing method,

and/or that data packets are communicated in the packet-switched data network subject to the analysis of the routing data contained in each of them, the packet-switched data network preferably working in accordance with the Internet protocol or in accordance with the ATM protocol or in accordance with a development of one of these protocols.

8. Method in accordance with one of the preceding claims, characterized in that at least one feature contained in a telephone profile (P1, P2) or in a packet network profile (P3, P4) is confirmed by an operator or is defined more precisely by at least one specification input by the operator.

9. Method in accordance with one of the preceding claims, characterized in that at least one feature is specified directly in the global profile (16).

10. Data processing system (12) characterized in that the data processing system (12) is so configured that in its operation it carries out a method in accordance with one of the preceding claims.

11. Program (10) with a sequence of instructions which, when executed by a processor, carries out the method steps relating to the global profile (16) in accordance with one of the claims 1 to 9.

13. Service profile (16) in accordance with claim 12, characterized in that it contains specifications (56) which are required in carrying out a method in accordance with one of claims 1 to 9.

12. Global service profile (16) characterized in that it contains data which specifies at least one telephone profile (P1, P2) and at least one packet network profile (P3, P4), in which

the telephone profile (P1, P2) is stored in a data processing system (12) and contains features which can be used by subscribers in a switched data transmission network,

and the packet network profile (P3, P4) is stored in a data processing system (12) and contains features which can be used by subscribers in a packet-switched data transmission network.