Patent ID: 8654760
Filing Date: 2014-02-18
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for providing feature services in a multimedia communication environment, the method comprising: receiving a signaling message, which can be a request or a response; running one or more scripts to compare the signaling message with control data to identify one or more service enablers that are responsive to the signaling message, wherein at least one of the service enablers is a service capabilities interaction manager (SCIM) operable to process the signaling messages and the control data to identify one or more service enablers or application servers to provide user-specific multimedia communication features, and the control data is selected from the group consisting of: a signaling message response value or response parameter value, dialog state information, application server state information provided in the form of one or more tokens, provisioned data, dynamic data, presence data, time of day, operating environment state information, one or more tokens returned from a policy server, and one or more tokens returned from one of the service enablers; and invoking each identified service enabler, wherein each identified service enabler operates in accordance with an associated policy hook that is externally configurable and controls the operation of the service enabler.