Patent ID: 7050454

Claim:
A method for administering additional services in a communication network, the method comprising: providing networked switching equipment; providing communication terminal equipment enabling access of subscribers, the communication terminal equipment being connectable to the networked switching equipment via further devices and via which transitions to at least one further network may be effected; providing at least one home register connected to the communication terminal equipment that registers services of the communication network for the subscriber; receiving a subscriber input in the communication terminal equipment for an additional service; generating, via the communication terminal equipment, at least one structured container message based on the received subscriber input; sending the at least one structured container message to the home register; implementing an interface directly between the home register and a service control point for using additional services controllable by the service control point according to an intelligent network structure; interpreting contents of the received at least one structured container message; and transmitting the received at least one structured container message directly to the service control point according to an interface protocol.