Patent ID: 6338088
Filing Date: 2002-01-08
Classification: H04Q

Abstract:
Service creation apparatus for a communications network in which communications services can be created or modified by screen-based manipulation of ordered sequences of units of code, the system providing a service by running such an ordered sequence of units of code in accordance with an execute graph, wherein the system comprises:i) an interface for use in accessing stored units of code; ii) means to select a set of units of code from those stored; iii) means to create or modify an edit graph, the edit graph determining at least in part the ordered sequence associated with a set of units of code for the provision of a communications service; iv) means to associate an edit graph with visual information for use by a user on a graphical user interface in editing or modifying the edit graph to produce an execute graph; and v) means to supply the edit graph together with the visual information to the graphical user interface; wherein the means to supply the edit graph together with visual information is adapted to supply at least one edit graph without visual information such that an execute graph can be produced from the edit graph without the edit graph being visible, or with the edit graph being only partially visible, to the user.