Patent ID: 8064915
Filing Date: 2011-11-22
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
1. A method for the provision of telecommunications services in an environment in which there are a plurality of systems working according to different standards and reachable from a terminal in an integrated way, at least one of the telecommunications services being provided by several systems of the plurality, the method, with regard to the request of provision of the at least one telecommunication service, comprising the steps of: verifying the availability for the provision of the requested telecommunication service of at least a first and a second system of the plurality, the first telecommunication system forming with respect to the second telecommunication system a resource to be exploited in a preferential way, and exploiting the resource in the preferential way by selecting, in an automatic and dynamic way, at least one of the first and the second system of the plurality for the provisioning of the requested telecommunication service by subdividing the telecommunication services into responsive to a request for a provision of a telecommunication service of the first set, verifying the availability of the second telecommunication system for providing the telecommunication service of the first set, supplying or not supplying, respectively, the telecommunication service of the first set through the second telecommunication system, depending on whether the second telecommunication system is available, responsive to a request for a provision of a telecommunication service of the second set, verifying the availability of the first telecommunication system for providing the telecommunication service of the second set, and providing the telecommunication service of the second set through the first telecommunication system when the first telecommunication system is available, and wherein the first telecommunication system is not configured to satisfy the initial Quality of Service (QoS) levels of the first set of telecommunication services, wherein the second telecommunication system is configured to satisfy the initial QoS levels of the first set of telecommunication services, wherein the first telecommunication system is configured to transmit more bits per second as compared to the second telecommunication system, and detecting the availability of the second telecommunication system by defining a load parameter of the second telecommunication system and by considering the second telecommunication system as unavailable when the load parameter reaches a threshold value, wherein the load parameter is based on uplink load as a function of an interference contribution, signal to noise ratio, and a service activity factor.