Patent ID: 6201862
Filing Date: 2001-03-13
Classification: H04M,H04Q

Abstract:
A method for providing at least one service to users of a telecommunication network, in which method service calls requesting the execution of the service for an respective one of the users are routed to a service switching exchange of the telecommunication network or are respectively routed to one of several service switching exchanges of the telecommunication network and in which method a corresponding service request is sent by the respective service switching exchange, that has received the respective service call, to a service control facility, characterized in that the service request is routed to a particular one of a plurality of servers of the service control facility, which are formed on top of an object infrastructure within an object oriented computing environment, that the particular server acts as service repository server and determines another one of the plurality of servers that is available and able to execute the control of the service for the respective service call.