Method for providing a set of basic services for using a telecommunicaiton network

• US 20050239395A1
• Filed: 07/11/2003
• Published: 10/27/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 08/01/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Alcatel SA (Nokia Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Alcatel SA (Nokia Corporation)
• Inventors: Delegue, Gerard, Papini, Helene
• Application Number:
  US10/522,801
• Publication Number:
  US 20050239395A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2209/505 Clust
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5061 Partitioning or combining of resources
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/14 Session management for real-time applications in data packet communications networks H04L65/1066
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/40 for recovering from a failure of a protocol instance or entity, e.g. service redundancy protocols, protocol state redundancy or protocol service redirection management of faults, events, alarms or notifications in data switching networks H04L41/06
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/4217 Managing service interactions

Abstract

The invention concerns a method for providing a set of elementary services for use in a telecommunication network which, in mutual combination, constitute batches of services. It comprise the following steps: forming groups (123, 45) of elementary services (14, 24, 34₁, 35₁), and activating or deactivating the services of a common group during a common transaction such tat all the services of a group can be activated only when all the other elementary services of that group are capable of being activated. Preferably, when an elementary service becomes unavailable, the elementary services pertaining to the same group(s) as the unavailable elementary service are rendered inactive unless they also pertain to another group of elementary services and the elementary services forming that other group of elementary services are activated.

Claims

1. Method of providing a set of basic services for using a telecommunication network which, combined with each other, constitute bundles of services, which method is characterized in that it comprises the following steps:

groups (123, 45) of basic services (14, 24, 34₁, 35₁) are constituted, and

the services of the same group are activated or deactivated during the same transaction so that the basic services of a group can be activated only if all the other basic services of that group can be activated.

2. Method according to claim 1 characterized in that when a basic service becomes unavailable, the basic services belonging to the same group or groups as the basic service that has become unavailable are rendered inactive unless they also belong to another group of basic services such that all the basic services that constitute that other group of basic services are activated.

3. Method according to claim 1 characterized in that each of the basic services of a group is assigned a group identifier.

4. Method according to claim 3 characterized in that the identifier of a group of basic services is stored in the specifications of all the basic services belonging to that group.

5. Server comprising means for providing a set of basic services for using a telecommunication network which, combined with each other, constitute bundles of services, which server is characterized in that, the basic services being combined into groups of basic services,

it comprises means for activating or deactivating the services of the same group during the same transaction, and

it comprises means so that the transaction is such that the basic services of a group can be activated only if all the other basic services of that group can be activated.

6. Server comprising means for deactivating basic services of a telecommunication network which, combined with each other, constitute bundles of services, which server is characterized in that, the basic services being combined into groups of basic services, it comprises means for deactivating, during the same transaction, if at least one of said basic services of a group of basic services becomes unavailable, all the services of the group of basic services that do not also belong to at least one other group of basic services such that all the basic services that constitute that other group of basic services are activated.