Patent ID: 6912593

Claim:
An information switching platform, comprising: a device access gateway for connecting a user terminal and converting information; an information switch for managing and switching information; and a service gateway interfaced with a service terminal; wherein the information switch comprises a management system and a core switching system; the core switching system comprises an information bus, a switching module and a switching management module; and the device access gateway and the service gateway are both connected with the information switch via the information bus; wherein a service request information sent by the user terminal is converted to a unique format information by the device access gateway, and the converted service request information is sent to the information switch via the information bus; according to the service terminal providing the service defined in the service request information, the information switch switches the converted service request information to the service gateway connected with the service terminal; and the service gateway converts the service request information with a unique format to a format, accessible to the service terminal, and sends to the service terminal, the service terminal receives the service request information; and wherein the service terminal creates a service acknowledgement information after the service request has been processed and sends the service acknowledgement information to the service gateway, the service gateway converts the service acknowledgement information to a unique format information and sends the converted acknowledgement information to the information switch via the information bus; according to the user terminal defined in the service acknowledgement information, the information switch sends the converted service acknowledgement information to the corresponding device access gateway; and then the device access gateway converts the service acknowledgement information with a unique format to a format, accessible to the user terminal, the user terminal receives the service acknowledgement information.