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 plurality of Buffer Management (BM) modules or chips communicate through each other through an interconnect. The BM modules receive packets from other parts of the network or external circuitry. These incoming packets are stored in an ingress pool. Data packets that a BM module receives from the interconnect are stored in a egress pool. The BM module takes the packets from the ingress pool and sends the packets across the interconnect to one of the other BM modules through the interconnect. A BM module receives the packet from the interconnect and stores it in an egress pool. The BM module takes packets from the egress pool and transmits it to a another part of the network or associated circuitry.

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.