Patent ID: 7092388
Filing Date: 2006-08-15
Classification: H04Q

Abstract:
1. An application platform for the addition of an application between a first node and a second node of a telecommunications signalling system which utilize a signalling protocol, by means of connection of the application platform between the first node and the second node, characterized in that the application platform comprises: a first interface stack coupled to the first node by means of a first link; a second interface stack coupled to the second node by means of a second link; a link management unit coupled to the first interface stack and to the second interface stack; and in that the link management unit mirrors a status of one link onto the other link by forcing it to assume the same kind of status, and in that the first interface stack and the second interface stack being incomplete stacks in relation to OSI standard routing functions, thereby enabling a connection of the application platform between the first node and the second node with still the first node considering itself connected directly to the second node by means of the first link without any intervening node or nodes and with still the second node considering itself connected directly to the first node by means of the second link without any intervening node or nodes.