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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 23, 2012
Filed:
Jan. 30, 2008
Fabrice Petesch, Lannion, FR;
Fabrice Petesch, Lannion, FR;
France Telecom, Paris, FR;
Abstract
A communications network including: n service managers (AS, AS, . . . , ASn), each adapted to execute an associated service; routing means (MR) adapted to receive protocol messages sent by a service manager, and to forward them to a terminal. The network also includes a conflict manager including: a set of packets, each packet containing rules for sorting protocol messages liable to be sent by at least two service managers; selection means for selecting a packet as a function of an indicator of the services that the terminal can access; sorting means for sorting protocol messages sent by at least two service managers upon execution of the associated services as a function of the content of a selected packet and forwarding the sorted protocol messages to the routing means (MR). Also disclosed are a conflict management method and a method of adding an additional service to a communications network.