Abstract: A communication node and corresponding method for processing data communication passing through the node between a first data network and a second data network is described. The method includes detecting an event associated with data communication arriving at the node from the first data network, and determining whether the data communication is to be suspended for service at the node based on the detected event. Suspended data communication is processed based on information in the data communication. Return data communication arriving at the node from the second data network in response to the processed data communication from the first data network is detected. The detected return data communication is allowed to pass through the node without processing the detected return data communication.

Abstract: A method in a network is provided. The method includes receiving messages from an application program in an application program interface (API), and passing the messages from the API to a control process in a mobile service switching platform (MSSP). A system is also provided. The system includes a Gateway General Packet Radio Service Support Node (GGSN) linked to control process in a Mobile Service Switching Platform (MSSP), a group of globally connected computers linked to the control process, an application program interface (API) connected to the control process, and an application system executing an application process linked to the API.

Abstract: An approach to handling packet-based data communication sessions between users and one or more data services is used for creating, provisioning, and using the data services to monitor and control packet-based data sessions between mobile terminals in a wireless telephone network and service providers accessible to those mobile terminals over a data network, for example over the Internet. For any particular mobile terminal, multiple service interactions, which may overlap in time, can be handled during a period of time during which the mobile terminal maintains data communication with the system. In one aspect the approach features a provisioning a service on the node, which includes configuring a detection point for the service. The node processes communication. This processing includes monitoring the communication to identify matches to the configured detection point. On identifying a match to the configured detection point, service logic for the service is notified of the detection point.