Patent ID: 8645459

Claim:
A method, performed by a device in a service provisioning platform for activating services in a communications network, the method comprising: receiving, using the device, a service order, the service order identifying a current service to be provisioned; obtaining, using the device, information regarding the current service; identifying, using the device, a service processing system to invoke for provisioning the current service, the identifying being based on the obtained information regarding the current service; identifying, using the device, one or more additional services, using the information regarding the current service; determining, using the device a sequence in which the current service and the one or more additional services are to be activated; and sending the service order, the information regarding the current service, and the sequence in which the current service and the one or more additional services are to be activated, from the device to the identified service processing system and from the device toward a service enabler such that the service enabler collects the information regarding the current service, determines a sequence for activating the current service and the one or more additional services based on the sequence determined by the device, and activates the current service and the one or more additional services based on the determined sequence for activating the current service and the one or more additional services.