Orange Personal Communications Services Limited

Cotham Technologies Limited

Orange Personal Telecommunications Services Limited

Dominic Desmond Phelim O'Neill

Michael David Eales

Christopher Shaw

Michael Andrew Williams

A method of creating a workflow on a smart device, comprising: presenting to a user for selection a plurality of input devices, each representing a data input mechanism of said smart device; receiving from the user a selection of one or more of said input devices; presenting to the user for selection a plurality of action devices, each representing a possible action to be taken by the smart device; receiving from the user a selection of one or more of said action devices; wherein each input device has one or more input device outputs, and wherein each action device has one or more action device inputs, and wherein the method further comprises forming one or more input-action associations each comprising a selected input device output associated with a selected action device input. The software provides a new system and method for operating a computer, allowing the user to create workflows linking several different inputs and actions, while avoiding or reducing the need to switch between different applications and different contexts. This results in significant improvements in efficiency and reliability during operation and allows specific workflows to be generated without the need for a skilled programmer. Combinations and sequences of input-action associations can also be generated for enhanced workflow creation.

Methods and software for creating workflows

A mobile telephone network has a function () which interacts with the platform () or platforms processing a call, event or session to: a) determine the services and/or call handling operations to be applied to the call, event or session; and b) determine if the platform(s) () are capable of carrying out the services and/or call handling operations required by the call, event or session. The function may then arrange for the platform () to be provided with appropriate data or for the call, event or session to be transferred to another platform. Moreover, a call may have part of its data converted into a standard protocol, and the data in that standard protocol then be used to guarantee a trigger for processing the call at a transfer device.

Call processing in mobile telecommunications networks

In order to store data in a mobile telecommunications system, a data storage unit (HLR) has data functions () providing data redundancy therebetween, control functions () and signalling point () to enable the data storage unit to pass data to and from a mobile telecommunications network under the control of the control function. The control functions are physically separate from the data functions. The data functions () may operate on the basis that one has a primary data function, a second has a primary standby function to achieve synchronised updating. The use of separate and hence distributed functions enables greater flexibility in the retrieval of data from the data storage unit (HLR).

Data handling system

In a telecommunications system a data function and a date control function are replicated in a plurality of databases (). In order to synchronize updating of the databases (), one database is identified as a primary database (), at least one is identified as a primary standby database (), and the others identified as secondary databases (). Then, in normal operation, the data control function of the primary database () is arranged to generate signals for synchronized updating of the other databases. In the event of a failure of the primary database, the or a standby primary database () takes over the up-grading operating. Tee present invention is particularly, but not exclusively, directed to a telecommunications system for mobile telephones.

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Bristol, United Kingdom

Dominic Desmond Phelim O'Neill