Patent ID: 6964050

Claim:
An arrangement for simplifying the design and implementation of mobile radio terminal services in a communications system, comprising: distributed hardware and software components provided in accordance with a distributed processing environment (DPE) and configurable in use to provide one or more services to one or more users; means for supporting one or more distribution transparencies in the DPE including access, location, or failure transparencies; and means for supporting mobile radio terminal mobility transparency in the DPE such that an application program being executed at a mobile radio terminal located in one radio service area serviced via one radio base station is not interrupted or hindered in its execution when the mobile radio terminal moves to another radio service area serviced via another radio base station; wherein the means for supporting mobile transparency in the DPE includes means for integrating a mobile radio terminal mobility function in the infrastructure of a software platform designed in the DPE, and wherein the means for supporting mobile radio terminal mobility transparency in the DPE includes an engineering object interceptor arranged at a boundary between a mobile radio terminal domain and a telecom system domain.