Systems, methods, and computer program products for providing service interaction and mediation in a communications network

Abstract

Systems, methods, and computer program products for providing service interaction and mediation in a communications network are disclosed. According to one aspect, the subject matter described herein includes a system for providing service interaction and mediation in a communications network. The system includes a communications interface for receiving a client-to-SCIM message from a service client; and a service capability interaction manager (SCIM) module for providing service interaction between the service client and multiple application servers providing different types of services. Providing the service interaction includes receiving, from the communications interface, the client-to-SCIM service interaction message, and, in response to receiving the client-to-SCIM message, generating multiple SCIM-to-server messages and sending the SCIM-to-server messages to multiple application servers. Providing the service interaction also includes receiving multiple server-to-SCIM service interaction messages from at least some of the application servers that received the SCIM-to-server messages, and, in response to receiving the server-to-SCIM messages, generating a SCIM-to-client message containing an aggregation of at least a portion of data from at least some of the server-to- SCIM messages, and sending the SCIM-to-client message containing the aggregation to the service client via the communications interface.

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[0001] priority claim [0002] This patent application claims Provisional Application No. 60 / 925,612 filed April 20, 2007 and Provisional Application No. 60 / 991,260 filed November 30, 2007 and Provisional Application No. 60 / 991,260 filed December 5, 2007 Priority of Application No. 60 / 992,384, which provisional application is expressly incorporated herein by reference. technical field [0003] The subject matter described in this paper relates to the provision of services in mixed-protocol telecommunications networks. More specifically, the subject matter described herein relates to systems, methods, and computer program products for providing service interaction and mediation in communication networks. Background technique [0004] Service interaction in communication networks refers to the process of managing interactions between network entities that request network services (called service clients) and network entities that provide these network services (called applica...

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Problems solved by technology

Current implementations of 3GPP SCIM are not yet capable of issuing multiple service requests in response to a single service trigger, and cannot aggregate

[0017] Thus, the obvious limitation of conventional SPs and current implementations of 3GPP SCIM is that they can only efficiently generate a single Service Request message for any given Service Trigger (usually a detection point) since they cannot be aggregated

If a service packet requires multiple service requests to be issued in response to a single service trigger, this limits the ability of network operators to provide "service packets" to users

For example, currently the restriction prevents a user from being both a prepaid user and a VPN user

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