Detecting service interactions in a telecommunications network
CA 2266734 A1 · Owner: British Telecommunications Public Limited Company · Inventors: Crowther, Michael John
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
Open the CIPO recordAbstract From the Canadian patent
A system for detecting interaction between different services on a telecommunications network includes a computer expert system. A data store in the expert system is programmed with data which represent attributes of service features. A rule store is programmed with rules which relate feature attributes to interaction behaviours. An inference engine is connected to the data store and to the rule store and processes the data and the rules to detect any interaction between the services. The data in the data store may be arranged as sets of objects, each object in a set corresponding to a different state transition of the corresponding feature. The different objects may be given …
Read the whole patent
Listed from its CIPO record in Patent Yard's archive of Canadian patents past their term. Its claims, description and drawings are in the CIPO record and on Google Patents, and the Claude kit works from them.
Why it's free to use
- Filed September 17, 1997. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended September 17, 2017.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by September 17, 2019.
- We check Canadian rights only. A patent in its family in another country could still be in force: check its family on Google Patents.
Timeline
Timeline From CIPO dates
Sources & verification
Official CIPO records
Everything on this page comes from the CIPO record linked above. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada.