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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 26, 2002
Filed:
Dec. 16, 1998
Gavin John Meakes, Canvey Island, GB;
Airspan Networks, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Abstract
The present invention provides a telecommunications system, and method of operation of such a system, the telecommunication system being arranged to be connected to a telecommunications network and to route telecommunications signals between the telecommunications network and a subscriber terminal of the telecommunications system. The telecommunications system comprises an interface mechanism for passing signaling events over a communications link between modules of the telecommunications system separated by the communications link. In accordance with the present invention, the interface mechanism comprises a network-side object on the telecommunications network side of the communications link for receiving a first signaling event from a first module of the telecommunications system and for generating a first signaling message to represent the first signaling event, and a user-side object on the subscriber terminal side of the communications link for receiving a second signaling event from a second module of the telecommunications system separated from said first module via the communications link, and for generating a second signaling message to represent the second signaling event. Further, the network-side object is arranged to pass the first signaling message to the user-side object over the communications link for subsequent processing by modules on the subscriber terminal side of the communications link, and the user-side object is arranged to pass the second signaling message to the network-side object over the communications link for subsequent processing by modules on the telecommunications network side of the communications link.