Cooperative call processing across public and private intelligent networks
First Claim
1. In a communications environment including a first telecommunications network and a second, different type of telecommunications network, each network having its own service control element including service control logic, switching control element, and service data element with the first and second network switching control elements having an in-band and out-of-band transport connection therebetween, a method for processing a requested service having plural service features comprising the steps of:
- establishing a communication between the first and second service control elements;
providing the first and second service control elements with a common set of operation procedures; and
one of the first and second service control elements requesting, using the common set of operation procedures commands over the established communication, that at least one of the service features be performed by the other service control element.
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Abstract
A wide range of advanced call processing services are optimally provided through a cooperative effort between public and private intelligent networks. Service control logic in the public network interacts with service control logic in the private network. The cooperative call processing exploits the best service features from both environments. More specifically, a logical relationship is established over an end-to-end, service logic communication path between the service control elements of both networks using a very small set of operation procedures. Using that set of operational procedures, either network'"'"'s service control logic requests and receives a service feature orchestrated entirely by the other network'"'"'s service logic. In this way, specific service features making up a requested service may be provided by the network best suited to perform a particular service feature. Since neither network needs to control or even know how the other network performs its assigned service feature, the integrity and simplicity of each network'"'"'s control logic and protocols are preserved.
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33 Claims
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1. In a communications environment including a first telecommunications network and a second, different type of telecommunications network, each network having its own service control element including service control logic, switching control element, and service data element with the first and second network switching control elements having an in-band and out-of-band transport connection therebetween, a method for processing a requested service having plural service features comprising the steps of:
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establishing a communication between the first and second service control elements; providing the first and second service control elements with a common set of operation procedures; and one of the first and second service control elements requesting, using the common set of operation procedures commands over the established communication, that at least one of the service features be performed by the other service control element. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. A method comprising:
logically integrating a first set of call services from a public telecommunications network oriented towards a first protocol with a second different set of call services from a private telecommunications network oriented towards a second protocol different from the first protocol including establishing a communication between the public network service logic and the private network service logic, and upon receiving a telecommunications call in one of the public and private telecommunications networks for a call processing service having plural service features, the public network service logic and the private network service logic cooperatively performing the plural service features using one call service from the first set of call services from the public telecommunications network and another call service from the second different set of call services from the private telecommunications network not included in the first set of call services. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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20. A system for providing call processing services, comprising:
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a first intelligent communications network having a first service control element including service control logic, a first switching control element, and a first service data element; a second, different type of intelligent communications network having a second service control element including service control logic, a second switching control element, and a second service data element; a transport path between with the first and second network switching control elements carrying in-band signals; a set of operation procedures common to the first and second service control elements; a communications path for transmitting operation procedures directly to and from the first and second service control elements; and wherein the first and second service control elements use ones of the common set of operation procedures transmitted over the communications path to cooperatively perform a requested service using resources from both the first and second communications networks. - View Dependent Claims (21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28)
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29. An integrated communications services system, comprising:
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a public intelligent network oriented towards a first protocol and providing a first set of services; a private intelligent network oriented towards a second protocol different from the first protocol and providing a second different set of services; a communications path between service logic in the public intelligent network and service logic in the private intelligent network; and a set of operation procedures used by both the public intelligent network service logic and the private intelligent network service logic to interact at a logical operation level such that when a telecommunications call is received in one of the networks requesting a call processing service having plural service features, the public intelligent network service logic and the private intelligent network service logic cooperatively perform the requested plural service features using the set of operation procedures transmitted over the communications path. - View Dependent Claims (30, 31, 32, 33)
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