Patent attributes
A service broker of telecommunications networks is described herein. According to one embodiment, in response to a telephony call event from a subscriber to be serviced by a plurality of services, for each of the plurality of services, a service description associated with the respective service is examined to identify which of the plurality of service is capable of handling the telephony call event, where the service description semantically describes the respective service. Thereafter, the telephony call event is distributed to one or more of the identified services that are capable of handling the telephony call event, where the telephony call event is processed by the one or more services. Other methods and apparatuses are also described.