Patent ID: 7653389

Claim:
A method of operating a mobile telephone network, said network having a platform for processing a call, event or session, and a function which interacts with said platform to determine said processing, wherein said platform is able to carry out a plurality of call handling operations; said function carrying out the following steps: a) determining call handling operations to be applied to said call, event or session generated to or for at least one mobile telephone of said mobile telephone network; b) determining if said platform of said mobile telephone network is capable of carrying out said call handling operations to be applied to said call, event or session; c) where said platform is capable of carrying out at least some of said call handling operations to be applied to said call, event or session, determining at said function data required to carry out said at least some of said call handling operations and determining a sequence of steps for said at least some of said call handling operations to enable said platform to process said call, event or session; d) collecting, from a database, said data which said one platform requires to process said call, event or session; e) causing said platform to process said call, event or session by carrying out said call handling operation in said sequence order and using said data; f) determining at said function a second platform of said plurality capable of carrying out others of said services or call handling operations; g) transferring said call, event or session to said second platform; and h) carrying out said others of said services or call handling operations at said second platform using said data.