Fecha de publicación: 28/11/2006 Fuente: WIPO "apis" A system and method of resource management is described. Within a telecommunications network, resources are sources of assistance in performing functions needed to process calls. The present invention is a system-wide approach to resource management that provides controlled access to information about resources. A resource management routine is described that comprises electronic libraries residing in memory of a computer system that store information about resources and resource management application programmer interfaces that are used to access the stored information.