Patent Document ID: 9641403
Application ID: 13452682

Base Claim:
1. A method of communicating information in a telecommunications system that is organized into a plurality of heterogeneous telecommunication domains, the method comprising: receiving, in a processor of a first domain orchestrator component, an implementation agnostic policy-charging service request message from a continuum orchestrator component, wherein: all components in the telecommunications system involved in delivery of a first service are grouped into at least one of a plurality of domains, each domain in the plurality of domains includes different components than every other domain in plurality of domains, the plurality of domains includes at least a first domain and a second domain, each of the components in the first domain implement domain-specific rules that are specific to the first domain, the components in the first domain collectively provide a first functionality for the delivery of the first service, the components in the second domain collectively provide a second functionality for the delivery of the first service, each of the components in the second domain implement domain-specific rules that are specific to the second domain, the first domain includes the first domain orchestrator component, the second domain includes a second domain orchestrator component, and the received implementation agnostic policy-charging service request message includes information identifying a functional service requirement for the delivery of the first service generating, by the processor of the first domain orchestrator component, implementation-and-domain-specific resource rules based on information included in the received implementation agnostic policy-charging service request message, the generated implementation-and-domain-specific resource rules including at least one domain-specific charging rule that is specific to the first domain; identifying, by the processor of the first domain orchestrator component, a policy component and a charging component in the first domain for enforcing the generated implementation-and-domain-specific resource rules; and sending at least one of the generated implementation-and-domain-specific resource rules to each of the identified policy and charging components.

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Claim 3:
3. The method of claim 1 , wherein receiving the implementation agnostic policy-charging service request message from the continuum orchestrator component comprises receiving: an implementation agnostic event-based service request message; an implementation agnostic session based service creation request message; an implementation agnostic session based service modification request message; an implementation agnostic session based service termination request message; or an implementation agnostic service request message containing policy information.