British Telecommunications Public Limited Company

Ad-x Limited

Communigate Ltd.

Philip Stephen Jones

Paul Michael Hayton

Stephen John Harris

Ian Bryan Taylor

Rodney Christopher Hall

John Allan Mountford

Gerard Morrow

Alan Dance

Stephen Andrew Wilson

Michael James Spooner

Robert Charles Bell

Terry Fellows

Richard Samuel Hearn

Eric Jenkin Williams

Colin Grantham

Michael William Day

Alistair John Lumpkin

Barry Sidney Farr

Simon Magnus Pyzer

David Scott Murray

Michael John Evans

Nicholas John Furley

Catherine Spence

Stephen Raymond Wells

A method of tracking software application downloads over the internet in which clicking on a web advertisement for a software application causes a user's device web browser to link to a tracking server which creates a unique identifier which is stored by the user's device browser, and also on the tracking server together with an indication of the web page including the advertisement. The user's device web browser then downloads the desired software application which includes executable code which, upon first execution, suspends the downloaded application and starts the browser, directing it to the tracking server and sending the unique identifier to the tracking server together with identification of the device and downloaded software application. The tracking server then uses the unique identifier to correlate the information on the downloaded application with the information originally stored at the time of clicking on the web advertisement.

Method of tracking software application internet downloads

A computer implemented interface for interfacing an equipment controller to an equipment manager each arranged to respond to a reproduced text messages according to a first and second protocol, respectively. The interface comprises a number of program modules (502-514) which each receive one or more inputs and produce an output dependent on whether defined conditions are met by the inputs. A number of the outputs of the program modules constitute inputs to other program modules therefore defining a network. A number of the program modules (502-508) are of the type which is responsive to a predefined text in a respective field of an input message to produce an output to a further program module which is responsive to a further predefined text in another field which is valid in a first protocol in the context of the predefined text. The network of program modules produces a series of outputs which represent the information content of the original input message. These outputs are then passed to a further series of modules which format a translation of the input message. The defined conditions of the program modules are modifiable and in particular are modifiable in a manner which is dependent on the state of part of the equipment management system thereby providing an inherent model of the network management system for use during parsing of an input message.

Interface for translating an information message from one protocol to

A support structure for an operational telecommunications network deploys a set of individual technologies and provides a set of services to customers. The support structure is divided into a set of domains each of which provides a particular management function for the network. These domains include a domain for managing customer handling functions, a domain for managing the network, a domain for managing the individual technologies deployed in the network, a domain for managing instances of the individual services provided by the network, a domain for managing billing operations, a domain for managing the services provided by the network when grouped together to form a portfolio, and a domain for managing jobs performed by the human workforce for the network. Each domain has its own set of databases and systems for performing the required management operations and also interfaces to some of the other domains. Each domain is implemented by one or more tightly integrated computers. The interfaces between the domains are primarily message passing interfaces.

Operational support structure for a telecommunications network

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Suffolk, United Kingdom

Philip Stephen Jones