Patent ID: 7660881

Claim:
A telecommunication system providing extended open service access to multiple heterogeneous networks, hereafter called underlying networks, the system comprising: one unique common framework for the underlying networks; and a common service capability feature for the underlying networks providing a common network interface, wherein the common service capability feature comprising: a mapping means for mapping open service access interface classes to interfaces of the underlying networks; and a dispatcher means dispatching a request from an application to a corresponding network interface class so that the telecommunication system can simultaneously provide extended open service access to each underlying network; a terminal ID administrator for selecting a network service capability feature instance for an application based on terminal ID, said service capability feature instance being selected from a set of multiple service capability feature instances wherein the terminal ID administrator provides an interface for the dispatcher means, the terminal ID administrator comprising program means for providing via the interface a reference for the service capability feature instance in response to receiving via the interface said terminal ID and an application ID for said application, the dispatcher comprising program means for using the reference to dispatch said request to the service capability feature instance.