Patent ID: 6990184

Claim:
A method of coordinating the use of telecommunications service providers when the use of a service provider ( 7 ) is invoked by a user ( 8 ) from a telecommunications terminal ( 9 ), which method is characterized in that it includes the following steps: on each request for access to a service provider ( 7 ) from a user ( 8 ), activating ( 1 ) a unique environment, consisting of a profile of said user and service sessions associated with said user ( 8 ), and processing validation of the service provider ( 7 ) access request, assigning ( 2 ) each service provider ( 7 ) whose access request is validated a unique session forming part of the unique environment of the user ( 8 ), managing ( 3 ) said unique environment by modeling the states that the environment of the user ( 8 ) can take and the relations between its states by means of a state diagram in which changes of state are triggered by given events, some of which are associated with the services offered by the service providers ( 7 ), granting ( 4 ) a service request submitted by a user ( 8 ) to a service provider ( 7 ) having a session as a function of the current state of the state diagram of the environment of the user ( 8 ) and events associated with the service request, and updating the environment of the user ( 8 ) on proceeding to the next state of the state diagram of the service provider ( 7 ).