System and method for providing peer-oriented control of telecommunications services

• US 6,788,688 B2
• Filed: 11/10/2001
• Issued: 09/07/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 04/14/1998
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Harold Herman Jr. Trebes
• Original Assignee: Harold Herman Jr. Trebes
• Inventors: Trebes, Harold Herman Jr.
• Primary Examiner(s): Patel, Ajit
• Application Number:
  US10/032,914
• Publication Number:
  US 20020093980A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,032 Days
• Field of Search: 370/395.1, 370/396, 370/397, 370/399, 370/400, 370/401, 370/408, 370/409, 370/410, 370/254, 370/465, 370/460, 370/466, 370/395.2, 370/252, 370/351-356, 370/389, 370/230, 370/259, 370/260, 370/521, 370/477, 709/220, 709/221, 709/222
• US Class Current: 370/395.1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/2854 Wide area networks, e.g. public data networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/5601 Transfer mode dependent, e.g. ATM
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2012/6472 Internet
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0806 for initial configuration or provisioning, e.g. plug-and-play
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0816 the condition being an adaptation, e.g. in response to network events
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/5003 Managing SLA; Interaction between SLA and QoS
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/5048 Automatic or semi-automatic definitions, e.g. definition templates
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/5054 Automatic deployment of services triggered by the service manager, e.g. service implementation by automatic configuration of network components
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/5067 Customer-centric QoS measurements
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 3/0029 Provisions for intelligent networking

Abstract

In a telecommunications network environment including non-participating elements and participating elements, a method for providing a telecommunications service between a first peer element connected to the telecommunications network environment and a second peer element connected to the telecommunications network. At a first peer element, an indication of the type of telecommunications service to be provided between the first peer element and the second peer element is received. A telecommunications service template in association with the indicated telecommunications service is determined, the telecommunications service template including instructions for configuring the non-participating elements of the telecommunications network environment to provide the indicated telecommunications service and instructions for configuring the participating elements of the telecommunications network environment. The telecommunications service template may further comprise routing instructions for the non-participating elements of the telecommunications network environment and routing instructions for the participating elements of the telecommunications network environment. The instructions to configure the participating elements and non-participating elements of the telecommunications network environment are executed to provide the telecommunications service. Data between the first peer element and the second peer element is transmitted via a predefined transmission protocol indicated by the telecommunications service template, the data including the routing instructions for the non-participating elements of the telecommunications network environment in a header portion of the predefined transmission protocol and the routing instructions for the participating elements of the telecommunications network environment in a payload portion of the predefined transmission protocol.

Claims

1. A method for establishing a telecommunication service between a first peer element and a second peer element in a network including participating and non-participating elements comprising the steps of:

receiving at said first peer element a telecommunication service request from a user; and

determining in response to said telecommunication service request a telecommunication service template including instructions for configuring the non-participating elements, routing instructions for the participating and non-participating elements.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprising the steps of:

establishing call/service setup for the telecommunications service.

3. The method of claim 2 further comprising:

determining whether the call/service set-up was successful; and

if not successful, then relying the call/service setup.

4. The method of claim 2 further comprising the step of encrypting and compressing the data to be sent in the telecommunications service prior to establishing the call/service setup.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising the step of receiving from a user a plurality of parameters in association with the telecommunications service, wherein the parameters are not supplied by the service template.

6. A peer element for use in a telecommunications network including participating elements and non-participating elements, said peer element comprising:

means for receiving a telecommunication service request from a user; and

means responsive to said service request for creating a telecommunications service template including instructions for configuring the non-participating elements, instructions for configuring the participating elements, routing instructions for the non-participating elements and routing instructions for the participating elements.