Patent ID: 6831915
Filing Date: 2004-12-14
Classification: H04L,H04M,H04Q,H04W

Abstract:
A service node for providing services in a telecommunications system that includes a bearer network for transmitting content between users, said service node comprising:receiving means for receiving and temporarily storing service logic programs and associated, but separate, content that are normally held remote from the service node; first control means responsive to an indication that a particular service associated with a particular user at least may soon be requested, to cause said receiving means to receive and store a particular service logic program corresponding to said particular service; execution means for executing the service logic programs; second control means responsive to a service request for said particular service, to cause the corresponding said particular logic program, received and stored by said receiving means, to be executed by said execution means; third control means responsive to said particular service logic program when executing on said execution means to cause the receiving means to receive and store said content associated with said particular service logic program; and bearer-network transmit means operable under control of said particular service logic program executing on said execution means, to deliver to said bearer network said content received by said receiving means which is associated with said particular service logic program.