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Generic conversion of communication media for supporting personal mobility

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Multimedia Telecommunications and Applications (COST237 1996)

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Abstract

The Intelligent Personal Communication Support System is introduced as an application for multiple media conversion tools, embedded in a context of personal mobility, service personalization and service interoperability support. After discussing models for conversion in theory, the current conversion technology is evaluated. The necessity of an integrated framework of flexible converters and a generic converter model are derived and automatic management of conversion quality is discussed.

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Abbreviations

CO:

Computational Object

CPE:

Customer Premises Equipment

CSM:

Connection Session Manager

GSI:

Generic Converter Interface

GSEP:

Generic Session Endpoint

IN:

Intelligent Network

iPCSS:

intelligent Personal Communication Support System

LCxt:

Local Context

MSAP:

Mediator Service Access Point

OCR:

Optical Character Recognition

PABX:

Private Automatic Branch Exchange

PCS:

Personal Communication Support

POTS:

Plain Old Telephone Service

PPrf:

Personal Profile

SSM:

Service Session Manager

SubAgt:

Subscription Agent

TE-A:

Terminal Equipment Agent

TINA:

Telecommunic. Information Networking Architecture

TMN:

Telecommunication Management Network

TTS:

Text-To-Speech conversion

UA:

User Agent

UAP:

(End) User Application

UCxt:

Usage Context

UPT:

Universal Personal Telecommunication

USM:

User (Service) Session Manager

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Pfeifer, T., Popescu-Zeletin, R. (1996). Generic conversion of communication media for supporting personal mobility. In: Ventre, G., Domingo-Pascual, J., Danthine, A. (eds) Multimedia Telecommunications and Applications. COST237 1996. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1185. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0020852

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