Telecommunication system gateway architecture and method

• US 20070091905A1
• Filed: 10/25/2005
• Published: 04/26/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 10/25/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Inventors: Henderson, Eric, Lu, Yu-Lin, Gulland, Scott
• Application Number:
  US11/259,169
• Publication Number:
  US 20070091905A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/401
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/66 Arrangements for connecting between networks having differing types of switching systems, e.g. gateways
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/53 using third party service providers
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 7/0012 Details of application programming interfaces [API] for telephone networks; Arrangements which combine a telephonic communication equipment and a computer, i.e. computer telephony integration [CPI] arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 7/12 for working between exchanges having different types of switching equipment, e.g. power-driven and step by step or decimal and non-decimal

Abstract

A telecommunications system gateway architecture comprises at least one service logic module communicatively coupled to a plurality of mediation layer modules, each respective mediation layer module adapted to interface the at least one service logic module with a respective different network domain.

Claims

1. A telecommunications system gateway architecture, comprising:

at least one service logic module communicatively coupled to a plurality of mediation layer modules, each respective mediation layer module adapted to interface the at least one service logic module with a respective different network domain.

2. The architecture of claim 1, further comprising an application programming interface (API) module communicatively coupled to the at least one service logic module.

3. The architecture of claim 1, wherein the at least one service logic module is disposed at a layer between the plurality of mediation layer modules and at least one API module.

4. The architecture of claim 1, further comprising a plurality of API modules each communicatively coupled to the at least one service logic module.

5. The architecture of claim 1, further comprising a plurality of API modules each communicatively coupled to the at least one service logic module, the plurality of API modules adapted to interface the at least one service logic module with respectively different service applications.

6. The architecture of claim 1, wherein the at least one service logic module comprises at least two service logic modules each communicatively coupled to each of the plurality of mediation layer modules.

7. The architecture of claim 1, further comprising a service administration module adapted to coordinate mapping of the at least one service logic module to each of the respectively communicatively coupled mediation layer modules.

8. The architecture of claim 1, wherein the at least one service logic module resides on a same platform of at least one of the plurality of mediation layer modules.

9. A method of providing telecommunications services, comprising:

providing a telecommunications service via at least one service logic module of a gateway architecture; and

interfacing the at least one service logic module to a plurality of different network domains via a plurality of respectively communicatively coupled mediation layer modules of the gateway architecture.

10. The method of claim 9, further comprising interfacing the at least one service logic module to a service application.

11. The method of claim 9, further comprising interfacing the at least one service logic module to a plurality of different service applications.

12. The method of claim 9, further comprising interfacing the at least one service logic module to a plurality of different service applications via a plurality of respectively communicatively coupled application programming interface (API) modules of the gateway architecture.

13. The method of claim 9, further comprising mapping the service logic module to each of the respectively communicatively coupled mediation layer modules.

14. The method of claim 9, further comprising mapping the service logic module to a plurality of API modules of the gateway architecture.

15. The method of claim 9, further comprising providing a telecommunications service via at least two service logic modules of the gateway architecture, each of the at least two service logic modules communicatively coupled to each of the plurality of mediation layer modules.

16. A telecommunications system gateway architecture, comprising:

a first tier adapted to interface with a service application;

a second tier having service logic module to facilitate interaction between the service application and a network domain; and

a third tier adapted to interface the service logic with a plurality of different network domains.

17. The architecture of claim 16, wherein the third tier comprises a plurality a mediation layer modules communicatively coupled to the service logic module.

18. The architecture of claim 16, wherein the first tier comprises a plurality of application programming interface (API) modules communicatively coupled to the service logic module.

19. The architecture of claim 16, wherein the first tier is adapted to interface the service logic to a plurality of different service applications.

20. The architecture of claim 16, wherein the first tier comprises a plurality of API modules each adapted to interface the service logic module to a respective different service application.

21. The architecture of claim 16, further comprising a service administration module adapted to map the service logic module to modules residing on the first and third tiers.

22. The architecture of claim 16, further comprising a service administration module adapted to map the service logic module to a plurality of API modules residing on the first tier.

23. The architecture of claim 16, further comprising a service administration module adapted to map the service logic module to a plurality of mediation layer modules residing on the third tier.

24. The architecture of claim 16, wherein the second tier comprises a at least two service logic modules communicatively coupled an API module residing on the first tier.

25. The architecture of claim 16, wherein the second tier comprises a at least two service logic modules communicatively coupled to a mediation layer module residing on the third tier.

26. The architecture of claim 16, wherein the first tier resides on a same platform as the second tier.

27. The architecture of claim 16, wherein the first tier resides on a same platform as the third tier.

28. The architecture of claim 16, wherein the second tier resides on a same platform as the third tier.