MANAGING FEATURE INTERACTIONS IN A TELECOMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM SUCH AS AN INTELLIGENT NETWORK

摘要

A method for managing communications between a service origination node (104) and a plurality of serving nodes (108, 202, 204) where the serving nodes (108, 202, 204) are simultaneously active for a particular trigger (116) to thereby generate a reply to the service origination node. The method includes the step of determining control options for each trigger indicative of service categories by capturing service interaction principles supplied by a serving node services expert acting as a mentor. The service interaction principles are based upon a requirement of executing service categories in each of the serving nodes for each trigger. The method also includes the step of controlling execution of each of the service nodes and the service categories for the particular trigger with reference to the control options to generate the reply.