Modular application software for telecommunications exchanges for providing all end user services traffic handling and charging requirements of an application type

US5691973A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ) · SE

Inventors

• Sune Ramstrom · Sundsvall, SE
• Johan Tornstrom · Linköping, SE
• Arne kerfeldt · Huddinge, SE
• Lars Bengtsson · Kungsbacka, SE
• Steve Doe · Camberley, GB
• Jan Gustafsson · Huddinge, SE
• Svante Haraldstad · Stuvsta-Snättringe, SE
• Lars Kari · Stockholm, SE
• Chris Kemp · Brighton, GB
• Jorgen Lantto · Stockholm, SE
• Johan Lindström · Söderkulla, FI
• Bertil Nilsson · Bjärred, SE
• Peter Öhman · Enebyberg, SE
• Jan Van Der Meer · Eindhoven, NL
• Paul van Hal · Oosterhout, NL

Key dates

• Filing date: May 26, 1994
• Grant date: Nov 25, 1997
• Expiry date: May 26, 2014

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H04Q2213/13535
• WIPO field: Telecommunications
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A software architecture for use in program controlled telecommunications switching exchanges in which application modules are employed to provide services to users of a particular communications application. Resource modules provide specific functional elements of communications services to the application modules by having access to and control over the exchange hardware. Network protocols provide communication between the application modules within the exchange and interfaces provide communications between the resource modules and between application modules and resource modules within the exchange.