Inventors:
Donald George Paul Waters - Woodbridge, GB
Jeremy Pavier - Ipswich, GB
Graham David Turner - Woodbridge, GB
Richard Dewitt Cox - Garland TX
Andrew Timothy Hunter - LaJolla CA
Jeffrey Kevin Rand - Coppell TX
Nicolas Duncan Barker Smith - Ipswich, GB
Assignee:
British Telecommunications public limited company - London
International Classification:
G06F 15173
US Classification:
709226, 709224, 709223, 709229
Abstract:
A service creation system for a communications network of the intelligent network type has 3 different levels at which service creation activities can be carried out, these being SCE1, SCE2 and SCE3. The use of separate levels allows access to the service creation system to be kept functionally separate for users having different interests in the network. Hence, features which have to be installed at the network element level for a selected service to be available can be created in SCE1. Marketable service features, which give a view of features in that they encapsulate call handling logic thereof together with support and management descriptions of the feature, can be created in SCE2. Service packages, which permit collection of marketable service features to meet requirements of a service together with servicespecific support and management information, can be created in either of SCE2 or SCE3. The service provider at SCE2 creates and tests edit graphs which comprise ordered sequences of marketable service features. These are then made available to the customer at SCE3.