Abstract
The Parlay X specification describes a number of Web Services that will provide a simple interface to telephony and other systems. Other telephony interface initiatives have addressed the needs of complex and niche applications. The Parlay X initiative has set out to address the needs of the wider population of application developers. These application developers should be able to create telephony applications with little or no knowledge of the underlying network. Version 1 of the specification is complete and should be released to the public in the near future. This version covers third-party call control, SMS, multimedia messaging, payment, account management, user status and user location. This paper discusses the motivation for these new initiatives and presents an overview of the specifications and also gives an insight into the implementations available.
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Parlay — http://www.parlay.org/
OSA — http://www.3gpp2.org/Public_html/Specs/
Object Management Group — http://www.omg.org/
W3C SOAP Standard — http://www.w3c.org/TR/soap12-part0/
3GPP — http://www.3gpp.org/
ETSI — http://www.etsi.org/
Microsoft's UBR — http://uddi.microsoft.com/
IBM's UBR — http://www-3.ibm.com/services/uddi/
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Lofthouse, H., Yates, M.J. & Stretch, R. Parlay X Web Services. BT Technology Journal 22, 81–86 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1023/B:BTTJ.0000015498.83303.f4
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1023/B:BTTJ.0000015498.83303.f4