Cisco Technology, Inc.

Computer Sciences Corporation

Anthony Pike

Michael P Hammer

Henry Louis Fourie

Thang Tat Do

Taiqi Fu

Patrick McGregor

Padma Valluri

Robert W Whent

Provided is a method that includes receiving a redirect request from one or more switches of a telecommunications network, receiving, from one or more switches of the telecommunications network, a connect request that requests connection of a transmitter device to a receiver device associated with the normal subscriber number, and configuring the telecommunication network to connect the transmitter device to a receiver device associated with the modified subscriber number, independently of the switch serving the normal receiver device being operable or inoperable. The redirect request comprises a normal subscriber number and a modified subscriber number.

Telecommunication redirect system and method

A network node, configured for interfacing between a source network having a source telephony protocol and a packet network configured for sending and receiving data according to Internet Protocol, is configured for generating an IP based transport message for transport of normalized information describing a signaling message received from the source network according to the source telephony protocol. The network node is configured for generating a generic transparency descriptor having generic attributes for describing the signaling message. The generic attributes include a protocol name that specifies the source telephony protocol relative to a prescribed set of source telephony protocol types, and a message identifier that specifies the message type according to the source telephony protocol. Optional attributes specifying respective parameters based on the particular signaling message also may be generated. The network node outputs the transport message having the generic transparency descriptor, enabling any node receiving the transport message to determine whether signaling operations specified by the signaling message can be executed, or whether alternate operations substituting for the signaling operations can be performed based on the generic transparency descriptor.

Arrangement for protocol independent transfer of control parameters across internetworks using generic transparency descriptor objects

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Anthony Pike