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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 04, 2004
Filed:
Nov. 30, 1999
Stephen J. Swartz, Maple Grove, MN (US);
Anil R. Bakshi, Ridgewood, NJ (US);
Christopher John Murphy, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Kevin Ronald Baeth, New Hope, MN (US);
Accenture L.L.P., Chicago, IL (US);
Abstract
A system, method, and article of manufacture in accordance with the claimed invention provides a service request processor in a local service activation management environment for management purposes. A core telecommunication system is interfaced for handling core telecommunication system requests and responses received from the core telecommunication system. The core telecommunication system requests generated by the core telecommunication system are validated. The core telecommunication system requests are processed if the processing can be done locally. If the request can not be done locally, it is translated to a predetermined protocol. Next, the request that is sent to a local service provider is and a response to the request is generated and received by the local service management environment. Error messages are generated by the core telecommunication system upon request validation or content validation failure. Status of the local service provider responses is provided and fault management is based on the status.