Method and system for providing a distributed service network for telecommunications service providers
First Claim
1. A method of providing advanced custom telecommunications subscriber services and service creation capabilities to a plurality of Service Providers (SP'"'"'s) participating in a telecommunications network, wherein the network includes a Service Control Point (network SCP) with a Service Creation Environment (network SCE) associated therewith for creating specialized services, said method comprising the steps of:
- a. distributing different types of SCE terminals to selected SP'"'"'s in the network;
b. connecting said SCE terminals with said network SCE via a common file server to form a distributed SCE system; and
c. allowing each SCE terminal access to said network SCE via said file server to participate in accessing and creating said advanced custom services or to load and retrieve service data.
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Abstract
A system and method for providing custom telephone services to a network of independent Service Providers (SP'"'"'s) includes a network Service Control Point (SCP) and an associated network Service Creation Environment (SCE) at the network level. A number of SP'"'"'s have SCE terminals which are interfaced with the network SCE through a network file server. This allows the SP'"'"'s to create custom services and also to access custom services via a common bulletin board of services maintained at the network SCE. Dedicated, distributed SCP'"'"'s owned by participating SP'"'"'s are linked to the network SCP via a high speed data link and use a common operating and application system which provides expanded call processing capabilities, monitoring and system redundancy for the distributed SCP'"'"'s.
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36 Claims
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1. A method of providing advanced custom telecommunications subscriber services and service creation capabilities to a plurality of Service Providers (SP'"'"'s) participating in a telecommunications network, wherein the network includes a Service Control Point (network SCP) with a Service Creation Environment (network SCE) associated therewith for creating specialized services, said method comprising the steps of:
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a. distributing different types of SCE terminals to selected SP'"'"'s in the network; b. connecting said SCE terminals with said network SCE via a common file server to form a distributed SCE system; and c. allowing each SCE terminal access to said network SCE via said file server to participate in accessing and creating said advanced custom services or to load and retrieve service data. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
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7. A method of providing advanced custom telecommunications subscriber services and service creation capabilities to a plurality of Service Providers (SP'"'"'s) participating in a telecommunications network, said network having a network Service Control Point (network SCP) and a network Service Creation Environment (network SCE).associated therewith, and at least some of said SP'"'"'s having their own separate geographically distributed Service Control Point (distributed SCP), said method comprising the steps of:
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a. providing the network SCP and each separate geographically distributed SCP with a common operating and application system; b. connecting each distributed SCP to the network SCP via a signalling link so as to provide call processing information, network redundancy and monitoring for the distributed SCP'"'"'s; c. providing separate different types of SCE terminals distributed at selected certain SP'"'"'s in the network; d. connecting each separate distributed SCE terminal with said network SCE via a common file server to form a distributed service creation system; and e. allowing each SCE terminal access to said network SCE via said file Server to participate in accessing and creating said advanced custom services or to load and retrieve service data. - View Dependent Claims (8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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13. In a telephone network comprising a plurality of telecommunications Service providers (SP'"'"'s) connected to a network Service Control Point (SCP) via out of band signalling links, the improvement comprising a distributed custom service system including:
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a. a service database associated with said network SCP, said service database including a plurality of subscriber identification numbers and a corresponding plurality of associated services; b. a Service Creation Environment (SCE) associated with said network SCP for creating and altering services and assigning services to specific subscriber identification numbers in said database; and c. a distributed SCE network including a plurality of different types of SCE terminals associated with corresponding ones of at least some of said SP'"'"'s, said SCE terminals being connected to said network SCE through a network SCE file server such that individual SP'"'"'s can control their own service requirements and can maintain their own subscriber service databases. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16, 17)
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18. In a network of participating telecommunications Service Providers (SP'"'"'s), said network having at least one Service Control Point (network SCP), at least some of said SP'"'"'s including a separate dedicated Service Control Point (distributed SCP), the improvement comprising:
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a. a common operating and application system for both the network SCP and each distributed SCP; b. one or more signalling links connecting each distributed SCP with said network SCP so as to provide call processing information, network redundancy and monitoring for the distributed SCP'"'"'s; c. a distributed Service Creation Environment including; (i.) a network Service Creation Environment (network SCE); (ii.) separate different types of SCE terminals distributed at certain SP'"'"'s in the network; and (iii.) a network file server connecting each of said separate distributed SCE terminals with said network SCE to provide service creation or to load and retrieve service data to and from said certain SP'"'"'s. - View Dependent Claims (19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24)
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25. In a network of participating telecommunications Service Providers (SP'"'"'s), said network having at least one Service Control Point (network SCP) and a Service Creation Environment (network SCE) associated therewith, the improvement comprising a distributed service creation environment including:
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a. separate different types of SCE terminals distributed at certain SP'"'"'s in the network; and b. a network file server connecting each of said separate distributed SCE terminals with said network SCE to provide service creation or to load and retrieve service data to and from said certain SP'"'"'s. - View Dependent Claims (26, 27, 28)
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29. A method of providing advanced custom telecommunications subscriber services and service creation capabilities to a plurality of Service Providers (SP'"'"'s) participating in a telecommunications network, wherein the network includes a Service Control Point (network SCP) with a Service Creation Environment (network SCE) associated therewith for creating specialized services, said method comprising the steps of:
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a. providing different types of SCE terminals distributed at corresponding SP'"'"'s in the network; b. connecting said SCE terminals with said network SCE via a common file server to form a distributed SCE system. c. creating a bulletin board of custom services at the network SCE; and d. allowing at least some of said SP'"'"'s to access said service bulletin board via said file server. - View Dependent Claims (30, 31, 32, 33)
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34. In a telephone network comprising a plurality of telecommunications Service providers (SP'"'"'s) connected to a network Service Control Point (network SCP) via out of band signalling links, the improvement comprising a distributed custom service system including:
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a. a service database associated with said network SCP, said service database including a plurality of subscriber identification numbers and a corresponding plurality of associated services; b. a Service Creation Environment (network SCE) associated with said network SCP for creating and altering services and assigning services to specific subscriber identification numbers in said database; c. a distributed SCE network including different types of SCE terminals associated with respective ones of at least some of said SP'"'"'s, said SCE terminals being connected to said network SCE through a network SCE file server such that individual SP'"'"'s can control their own service requirements and can maintain their own subscriber service databases; and d. a bulletin board of custom services at the network SCE whereby at least some of said SCE terminals have selective access to said service bulletin board via said SCE file server. - View Dependent Claims (35, 36)
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