International Business Machines Corporation

Zygmunt A Lozinski

Thomas Edward Creamer

Victor S Moore

Glen R Walters

Baiju Dhirajlal Mandalia

Michael Edward Alexander

Stephen Laufer

Brian Naughton

Craig Anthony Farrell

Peter Guglielmino

Malcolm G Nicholas

Michael William Clanton

Peeyush Jaiswal

Neil A Katz

Joseph Herbert McIntyre

Malolan Chetlur

Pradeep Parsram Mansey

Fabien P Lanne

Susan Patricia Paice

Robert Michael Jordan

Andrew James Ritchie

Stuart J Hayton

Barry J Worley

David John Prime

Fabien Lanne

Allocating streaming content on a hybrid network can include searching for streaming content broadcast via broadcast signals over a broadcast network as a communications device is receiving the streaming content via a cellular network. Responsive to identifying, based on the searching, a within-range broadcast source broadcasting the streaming content via broadcast signals, the communications device can begin receiving the streaming content via the broadcast signals over the broadcast network and cease receiving the streaming content via the cellular network.

Allocating streaming content on a hybrid network

A processor-implemented method manages a data cache for a computer system. One or more processors maintain a cache for one or more data resources requested by a client process. In response to a request from the client process for a cached data resource, the processors send a first request to a server process for the data resource, and a second request to the server process for an indication of whether or not the data resource has been modified since the data source was most recently cached. Responses to the first or second requests from the server process are compared with the cached data resources so as to identify whether the response to the second request is inaccurate. One or more processors disable caching for the data resource in response to a predetermined number of inaccurate second requests associated with the data resource being identified.

Managing a data cache for a computer system

A telecommunication network including: a radio access network; and a network switching subsystem operable for communication with the radio access network and with a demand-driven, dynamically-configurable IP based computing infrastructure.

Telecommunication network

A method of communicating a telecommunication request initiated by a subscriber in a telecommunication network. The method according to an embodiment includes: receiving a request for a voice or data communication by a radio access network; and communicating the received request to a network switching subsystem for processing by a demand-driven, dynamically-configurable IP based computing infrastructure.

A method, system and apparatus for managing guest services to a telephone subscriber using identifying information provided through the PSTN to a guest services management center. In accordance with the present invention, a guest services management method can include prompting a guest through an established telephone call to manage at least one guest service without first prompting the guest for identifying information. The method further can include managing the guest service without accessing guest information derived through the established telephone call.

Guest services management service

A method of communication among telephony services using an event context cache can include, in a messaging telephony service, receiving a telephony event from a node in the public switched telephony network specifying a called directory number, a calling directory number, and service context data. The service context data can be stored as an entry within the event context cache. The event context cache can be accessible by at least one other telephony service. The entry can be associated with a key for the event context cache. The key can be specified by the called directory number and the calling directory number.

Method for telecommunications service-to-service asynchronous communications using a context cache

A method for visually generating a service component can include specifying at least one service building block, wherein the specification includes visually selecting a plurality of event handlers for inclusion in the at least one service building block. The method can also include exporting the at least one service building block. The exporting step can produce a deployment descriptor which describes events for which the at least one service building block has been configured to handle. The at least one service block can be visually arranged, wherein the arrangement can form the service component. Finally, the service component produced by the visual arrangement can be configured for insertion in a SLEE in an advanced intelligent network. Notably, in one aspect of the method, the method can further include the step of encapsulating the service component in a service application container.

Visual tool for developing service components for use in advanced intelligent networks

A method of directly changing a service attribute corresponding to a service component through a hypermedia document. The hypermedia document can provide an interface to a service logic execution environment (SLEE). The method can include providing a plurality of selections embodied in the hypermedia document. The plurality of selections can correspond to the service attribute. The method further can include receiving a user specified selection in the hypermedia document and generating a SLEE compatible event based on the user selection. The event can be of a type which the service component has been registered in the SLEE to receive. Also, the event can be routed to the service component via the SLEE. The service component can process the event and update service attribute information corresponding to the service attribute consistent with the event.

Method of changing service attributes in a service logic execution environment

A method of directly administering a service component through a hypermedia document can include a series of steps. The hypermedia document can provide an interface to a service logic execution environment (SLEE). At least one administrative option embodied in the hypermedia document can be provided. The at least one administrative option can correspond to a function to be performed by the service component. A user specified administrative option can be received in the hypermedia document and a SLEE compatible event can be generated based on the user specified administrative option. The event can be a type which the service component has been registered in the SLEE to receive. Also, the event can be routed to the service component via the SLEE. The service component can process the event and perform an administrative function consistent with the event.

Remote administration and monitoring of a service component in a service logic execution environment

An advanced intelligent network according to the present invention can include a service logic execution environment (SLEE). The SLEE can include an event handler for routing messages between and among client components and service components. The advanced intelligent network further can include at least one service component configured to post and receive messages to and from other service components in the SLEE through the event handler. At least one Internet enabled service component (IESC) executing in the SLEE also can be included. The IESC can be configured to post and receive messages to and from other service components in SLEE through the event handler. The IESC can be communicatively linked to a server side program external to the SLEE.

Server side program interface to service logic execution environment

The present invention provides a method for routing a telephone call based on a calendar telephony interface. The method can include parsing telephone data associated with the telephone call, and determining from the parsed telephone data, a called telephone number and an identity of a person associated with the called number. The method further can include retrieving an XML formatted calendar entry associated with the identified person and extracting call control information from the XML formatted calendar entry. Accordingly, the telephone call based on the extracted routing information can be routed.

Method and apparatus for an extensible markup language (XML) calendar-telephony interface

The invention provides a method and apparatus for an extensible markup language (XML) calendar-telephony interface. The method can include the steps of defining an markup language element having a user defined tag that represents a calendar entry. The markup language element can have attributes which can represent call control instructions or information. The attributes can also be formatted using a markup language format that utilizes user defined tags. The elements and/or attributes can be formatted using XML format. The call control instruction can be provided to a telephony application upon initiation of a call or by request. A calendar application program can be used for maintaining calendar entries which can be stored in a database and made accessible to the telephony call control application. Utilizing call rejection as an illustration, a called party can have an XML formatted calendar entry stored which indicates that no calls are to be received from callers during a specified period except calls from a caller having a particular DN. If a call is initiated by a caller having that particular DN during the specified time period, the telephony application can determine that the call should be allowed. Accordingly, a network signaling device can be instructed to route the call to the dialed DN. If the calling DN was different from the particular DN stored in the XML calendar database, the call would not be completed.

Method and apparatus for calendar based call control

A telephone system provides subscribers with access to a service provider's platform logic and data implemented in any runtime environment. In one embodiment, the service logic is embodied in Java applets and Java beans in a JAVA virtual machine for subscriber personalizing and modifying the service logic. The provider provides the subscriber a tool kit or access to a support server for writing service logic modifications as JAVA beans. The service logic modification is achieved in a process in which the service requirements and objectives are set. The service specifications are designed, implemented, tested, and rolled out. Initial service provisioning and support is provided a subscriber, service modification by the subscriber is made to subscriber data provisioning and subscriber service logic provisions. A modified service logic is locally tested by the subscriber, followed by remote testing of the modification on the service provider's premises. The service provider provisions and then supports the modified service logic.

System and method for providing customer personalized and modifiable subscriber services

This invention relates to an intelligent peripheral (IP) for connecting to a telephone network and providing added capabilities to the network. More particularly the invention relates to programmable suppression of call answer supervision by an intelligent peripheral or a voice recognition unit in a telephone network. The method comprises the steps of: the peripheral device receiving a call setup message from a network switch when a call is being initiated. The IP, on receipt of the call setup signal, suppresses the normal answer signal output and instead outputs a progress signal to the network switch. For an ISDN network the progress signal is a Progress Indicator PI=08 signal.

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Papworth Everard, United Kingdom

Zygmunt A Lozinski