摘要 |
A teleservice management system is adapted to support the provision of a plurality of complex teleservices and has a plurality of intercommunicating subsystems. The teleservice management system negotiates and settles agreements between participants to a service session, resource control architectures within terminals and a resource control architecture in a transmission network. The teleservice management system employs a teleservice control protocol for transmitting messages between said subsystems and thereby controlling a teleservice. The teleservice control protocol is arranged to link a network resource manager, service users and terminal resource managers, into a teleservice control process for facilitating delivery of a teleservice which is optimal, in terms of resource usage, and agreed by a service user. The teleservice control protocol is adapted for use with a plurality of different teleservices including: multiparty, multimedia conference services; tele-game services; tele-shopping services; and tele-education services. The teleservice control protocol messages refer to specific parts of an object oriented model of a teleservice session. The teleservice control protocol includes messages exchanged between: a terminal part and a network part of the teleservice management system; the teleservice management system and a service control graphical user interface; the teleservice management system and an application launcher daemon; and the teleservice management system and network resource managers. |