Patent ID: 9681252
Date: 2017-06-13
CPC Classifications: H04W

Claim:
1. A method of provisioning and activating subscriber services in telecommunications network elements in a telecommunication network of a network operator, the method comprising: receiving subscriber service requests sent from a plurality of source systems; for each received request, sending a positive or negative acknowledgement of the request back to the respective source system based on whether the request was properly received or not; for each positively acknowledged request, determining a series of operations necessary to be performed in a group of telecommunications network elements in order to fulfil the subscriber service request; and performing the determined series of operations whereby at least one change of state occurs in each element in said group of telecommunications network elements; wherein the method is executed in a system environment with a limited total processing power for processing service requests from receipt to respective changes in the telecommunications network elements; and if the processing load imposed by all the received requests exceeds the total processing power, delaying the sending of the positive and/or negative acknowledgements back to the respective source system.