SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COORDINATING NOTIFICATION REQUESTS FOR TERMINAL AVAILABILITY

摘要

A telecommunications system and method is disclosed for coordinating requests (218) by applications (210) for notification of when a mobile terminal (200) becomes available in order to allow each requesting application (210) to contact the mobile terminal (200) in a logical order without burdening the system with numerous simultaneous contact attempts by the various requesting applications (210). When attempts to contact a mobile terminal (200) directly by different applications (210) are unsuccessful, a control node, such as a Home Location Register (HLR) (220) or a Service Control Point (SCP) (420) within an Inelligent Network (IN), can receive notification requests (218) from these nodes (210) or applications and prioritize them according to the time received and/or the priority (215) of each requesting application (210). Thus, priorities (215) between different applications (210) can be set and intervals between notifications can be controlled to values appropriate for the requesting applications (210) in order to provide an efficient and effective system and method for coordinating notification requests (218). Therefore, applications (210) which have requested notification are less likely to meet congestion following notification.