Patent ID: 6847639

Claim:
Apparatus for communicating between a telecommunications switch and a plurality of at least two application servers, comprising: a telecommunications switch; a service integration node; and a plurality of application servers; said switch for generating an event request datagram for feature control information, and for transmitting said request datagram to said service integration node; said service integration node for analyzing said event request datagram from said telecommunications switch, and converting said event request datagram into one or more feature request datagrams; said service integration node for assigning each feature request datagram to an application server, and for transmitting one or more feature request datagrams to one or more assigned application servers; said application servers for analyzing received request datagrams, and for generating action datagrams for transmission to said service integration node; said service integration node responsive to receipt of said action datagrams for generating at least one of an action datagram to said telecommunications switch, or an additional event request datagram to one of said application servers.