Patent ID: 6981263

Claim:
A system for providing an application service in a converged service creation environment, the system comprising: an application server; a plurality of applications, the applications coupled to the application server, each of the applications providing a service with one or more services being voice-oriented call processing and one or more services being non-voice-oriented processing; a plurality of open application programming interfaces, the plurality of application programming interfaces coupled to the application server and receiving requests for a service of a corresponding application of the plurality; service session management logic, the service session management logic coupled to the application server and creating a service session by providing instructions to establish communications, where the instructions and established communications depend at least upon whether the requested service requires a voice-oriented call processing application; wherein the application is a network application; wherein the network application receives the service request; wherein the network application communicates with the service session management logic to create the service session, the communication based at least in part on the service request; a soft switch, the soft switch coupled to the service session management logic; wherein the service session management logic sends a communications session instruction to the softswitch, the communications session instruction based at least in part on the service session instruction; and wherein the softswitch sends a first communication setup instruction to a service server and a second communication setup instruction to a customer data device, the first communication setup instruction and the second communication setup instruction based at least in part on the communications session instruction.