Patent ID: 7573899

Claim:
A telecommunication network service entity device, comprising: a plurality of adaptor modules configured to execute in a stack in the telecommunication network service entity device, the plurality of adaptor modules being configured for communicating with a service manager that functions within the stack and are configured to functionally lie in said service manager between a layer of a plurality of service applications in the stack and a network layer in the stack, where each service application provides a service; the plurality of adaptor modules each being configured to: associate each of themselves with a selected one of said plurality of service applications, receive from the service manager a service output message generated by a service application associated with a particular adaptor module, map the service output message to a corresponding network input message accepted by the network layer, and pass the network input message to the service manager for transmission to the network layer; wherein the network layer is operable to receive a plurality of network input messages and wherein each adaptor module is operable to map the service output message only to a corresponding one of a defined subset of the plurality of network input messages.