Patent ID: 8401022

Claim:
A system for providing communication services, the system comprising: a communication network, wherein the communication network is a non-IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) network; one or more subsystems executing on a Service Delivery Platform (SDP) communicatively coupled with the non-IMS network the one or more subsystems of the SDP providing one or more telco functions over the non-IMS network, wherein the one or more subsystems are further adapted to provide one or more IMS services over the non-IMS network, wherein the one or more subsystems comprise a platform adapted to provide an abstraction of the non-IMS network and other resources, wherein the one or more subsystems provide the one or more IMS services but are not an IMS architecture implementation and wherein the platform is not an IMS architecture implementation; and one or more application servers communicatively coupled with the non-IMS network and executing one or more service level applications that utilize the telco functions and wherein the one or more applications are adapted to access the non-IMS network and resources through the one or more subsystems of the SDP independent of underlying technologies of the non-IMS network and resources.