Traffic in an intelligent communications network having a distributed processing environment is controlled using software objects corresponding to respective components of the network. Each object is associated with a respective service element parameter (SEP) and writes its SEP to a SEP field of each...http://www.google.com/patents/US6205212?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US6205212 - Method and apparatus for implementing software objects in an intelligent communication network to process and control communication traffic
