Convergent mediation system with improved data transfer

摘要

An object is to create a convergent mediation system (10) and method that meet the technical requirements of low latency time and high reliability. According an aspect of the invention, these objects are achieved by providing a convergent mediation system (10) that comprises a plurality of independent processing nodes (120, 125) adapted to form processing streams (200) for the online processing (12) and off-line processing (14) of data. Each of the processing streams (200) comprises at least two independent nodes (120, 125) in sequence and buffers (145) between the nodes (120, 125). Furthermore, random access memory is utilized such that at least one of the buffers (145) in each of the online processing streams (212) is formed by a dedicated memory area in the random access memory.

主权项

1. A convergent mediation system comprising:
processing streams including an online processing stream for the online processing of data and an off-line processing stream for the off-line processing of the data, each of the processing streams comprising independent nodes structured to continue operating if an independent node in a processing stream fails, wherein at least the first independent node in the online processing stream is an online interface node adapted to receive the data from at least one of a communications network and a service delivery platform and send a response thereto; each of the processing streams comprising at least two of the independent nodes in sequence and a buffer between every two of the at least two independent nodes, wherein a buffer downstream of an independent node keeps a copy of an item of data until a corresponding item of data is successfully written in a buffer upstream of the independent node, and at least one of the buffers in the online processing streams including a dedicated memory area in a random access memory.