Patent ID: 7788401

Claim:
An operations switch, comprising: (a) an application server adapted for: i) creating subscriptions to operations services for users of user networks that are provided to users of user networks from operation service provides via operations service servers; ii) maintaining a database including database segments for storing data associated with each of the operation service servers, the user network, and the operations services, wherein the database segment for the user networks maintains the subscriptions and wherein the subscriptions include associations for each of the user network with one or more of the operations services and with one or more of the operations service servers; and iii) selecting one or more of the operations service servers to provide the subscribed to operations services to the users based on one or more predetermined criteria, wherein the predetermined criteria include selecting the operations service servers associated with the lowest subscription price charged by the operations service providers and selecting the operations service servers associate with the highest subscription commissions paid to the operations service provider; (b) a network server adapted for: i) routing communications between the application server and each of the operations services server to initiate the operations services; ii) establishing a connection between the operations services servers and the user networks according to the subscriptions; and (c) a media server adapted for providing an interface for communicating with the users to: i) provide options to the users to select from for the operations services that are available to be subscribed to; ii) receive selections from the users for one or more of the provided options; and iii) establish, within the database, the subscriptions to the selected operations services for the user networks.