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At+t Corp.

Andrew A Soong

Paramdeep S Sahni

David T Chai

Sing H Lin

The present invention relates to a spelling and encoding method for ideographic symbols, such as Chinese characters. The spelling method can provide first and second components for identifying first and second groups of ideographic symbols, wherein the two groups can have at least one common ideographic symbol correlating with the two components. For example, the two components can be a Chinese Pinyin spelling and a Four Corner Numerical Index, respectively, which can each identify a group of Chinese characters and be combined to identify one or more characters. The spelling method can further provide a third component to differentiate a plurality of ideographic symbols common to the two groups to uniquely identify each common symbol. In one embodiment, an alphanumeric spelling can be provided to uniquely identify each ideographic symbol. The encoding method can encode various alphanumeric representations of the ideographic symbols by the 7-bit ASCII standard code.

Spelling and encoding method for ideographic symbols

In a network-based communication system, communication trunks are allocated based on a history of network use and global event calendar information relating to particular regions that the network system services. A trunk allocation database is used for controlling the normal day-to-day trunk allocations to assign the trunks among the various network services. A global event calendar database containing holiday and event information observed by various countries and regions is provided for dynamically re-allocating the trunk assignments for trunks servicing a particular country or region when a holiday or event for that particular region occurs. The global event calendar database also informationally provides network users calling a particular region with timely information pertaining to holidays or events in the particular country or region that the user has called.

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Andrew A Soong