Patent ID: 6490613
Filing Date: 2002-12-03
Classification: H04L,H04Q,H04W

Abstract:
Arrangement for extending service support in a communications system, especially a telecommunications system, said system comprising distributed components which interact in order to provide services to one or more users,characterized in introducing in said system an interface which also provides services to mobility-based applications, said service interface comprises an object called Informer, the basic operations of the Informer object consist of operation to query the location of one user, operation to query locations, i.e., the Network access point (NAP) of a group of users, operation to query the terminal currently used by one user, operation to query the terminals currently used by a group of users, operation to query the location of a terminal and operation to query the locations of a group of terminals, which information is obtained in cooperation with objects of the communication system in question through agent technique.