Patent ID: 8296431

Claim:
A communications network comprising: n service managers, n being an integer greater than or equal to 2, each service manager being adapted to execute an associated service; a router adapted to receive protocol messages sent by a service manager, of the n service manager, upon execution of an associated service of the service manager, and to forward them to a terminal; a profile manager having a list of terminals connected to the network and a list of associated subscriber profiles, each subscriber profile including an indicator of services that an associated terminal can access; a connection manager adapted to identify a terminal, connect said identified terminal to the network, and update an indicator as a function of services that the identified terminal can access; and a conflict manager including: a set of packets of rules, each packet containing rules for sorting protocol messages liable to be sent by at least two service managers; a selector adapted to select a packet of rules as a function of an indicator of services that the terminal can access; and a sorter adapted to sort protocol messages sent to a given terminal by at least two service managers upon execution of associated services of the at least two service managers, the sorting being performed as a function of the content of a packet of rules selected for the given terminal from the set of packets using said selector and an indication included in a subscriber profile associated with the given terminal, and further adapted to forward the sorted protocol messages to the router.