Patent ID: 7886052

Claim:
A capability broker for providing capabilities of an operator of a communications network, the capabilities being situated in enabler servers in the operator's network, the capability broker comprising: memory; processor; an administrator interface through which an administrator of the capability broker is able to grant capabilities to a certain service provider, the administrator of the capability broker being nominated by the operator; and, a capability interface adapted to receive a capability request pertaining to a request of at least one capability; the processor being adapted to use one or more messages to obtain the requested at least one capability from one or more enabler servers responsive to receiving the capability request; and, to provide a response to the capability request on the basis of the obtained capability; wherein the capability broker further comprises a request mapper adapted to map the received capability request to the one or more messages used to obtain the capability from the one or more enabler servers, and to map the results of the request obtained from the one or more enabler servers to the capability request.