Patent ID: 7743117

Claim:
A method for provisioning a request for new services to specific network elements in a communications network using one or more processors, the method comprising: receiving a request from a customer care system through the one or more processors to provision new communication services; managing at least one service module operating in the functional layers of a communications system between a request processing layer and a task execution layer, through a service module interface that interacts with a product core; sending at least one request defining provisioning relating to at least one new customer and at least one new communication service through the one or more processors to specific network elements; processing each request to implement the provisioning relating to the at least one new customer and new service to configure the at least one service module with the service module interface; executing tasks according to the service module of the processing step; reporting the results to the requesting entity; performing the processing steps within the functional layers; and performing the method steps of at least one layer by independently mountable and dismountable functional modules.