Qwest Communications International Inc.

Avaya Inc.

U S West, Inc.

Mediaone Group, Inc.

Avaya Technology LLC

Bell Communications Research, Inc.

U S West Advanced Technologies, Inc.

Sheridan Ross P.c.

Donald E Gillespie

Jafar S Nabkel

Kurt H Haserodt

William Thomas Walker

John Meiners

Renee Krahn

Edward A Youngs

Karen Siegel-Jacobs

Harvey J Benson

Christopher David Baldwin

Gregory Wilfred Bruening

Manish Marwah

Albert D Pessot

Vivekananda Velamala

David G Robinson

Robert C Steiner

Douglas S Beck

Gregory M Fisher

Alan S Mulberg

Luigi Gentile Polese

Marcus Roman

Mark S Maize

Robert B Howell

Lei-Lei C Wang

Sary Tauv

Robert V Phillips, Iii

Michael Gruen

Pamela G McGovern

Mark W Hardison

Neil Ellis Gallensky

Jeffrey R Evans

Madhav V Apte

Downloadable pluggable services and methods of distributing the same are described. The downloadable pluggable services may correspond to communication services that can be downloaded to upgrade a communication system. The downloadable pluggable services may include a number of component parts that can be distributed among various servers in the communication system being upgraded along with instructions that enable the component parts to instruct each server in the communication system to operate in a coordinated fashion so as to provide the downloaded service.

Services versioning

Service-preserving upgrade

In one configuration, the present invention is directed to an enterprise network that includes geographically dislocated first and second network regions communicating with one another through first and second networks and respectively comprising first and second gateways and first and second groupings of trunks. A media server is positioned in the first network region that includes a routing agent. When a WAN outage occurs, the routing agent, using a dial plan, maps the dialed digits to an electronic address addressable over the PSTN and routes the call over the PSTN to the destination second communication device in the second network region.

Dial plan routing for fragmented networks

A method and system for providing transmission of a selected media program to a wireless handset includes a source provider, such as a wireless network or a wireless handset, for receiving a transmission from at least one media program provider. At least one wireless handset transmits a request selecting one of the media programs. In response thereto, the source provider simultaneously transmits the selected media program to each of the wireless handsets.

Method and system for providing transmission of selected media programs to a wireless subscriber

Methods, devices, and systems for employing binary objects representing SIP messages. More specifically, a binary SIP stack is provided which allows a mechanism to enhance the efficiency of communications and more particularly to enhance the efficiency of SIP communications between SIP network elements. Also, mechanisms are provided which allow for a SIP stack to be easily and efficiently generated, transmitted over a communication network, and parsed/processed by a communication device.

Mechanisms for temporal building and parsing SIP messages

The present invention is directed to a secondary communication serverfor assuming control of a communication formerly controlled by a primary communication serverin the event of a failure, comprising: (a) an input operable to (i) receive, from a first communication nodefirst communication information, wherein the first communication information is associated with the communication and comprises a first node identifierand/or a communication identifierthe first node identifieris associated with a second communication nodethe communication identifier is associated with the communication, and the second communication nodecomprises second communication information associated with the communication and (ii) thereafter receive, from the second communication nodethe second communication information; and (b) a reconstruction agentoperable to identify the second communication information based on the first node identifierand/or communication identifier

Method and apparatus for merging call components during call reconstruction

In one configuration, the present invention is directed to an enterprise network that includes geographically dislocated first and second network regionsandcommunicating with one another through first and second networksandand respectively comprising first and second gatewaysandand first and second groupings of trunks. A common electronic address is associated with the second grouping of trunks. A media serveris positioned in the first network regionthat includes an inter-gateway routing agent. The first network region transmits, as part of the establishment of a real-time or near real-time communication between first and second subscribers respectively in the first and second network regions, the common address to the second gateway. After the outgoing communication is answered by the second gateway, the first network region transmits in band to the second gatewaya user identifier associated with the second subscriber and/or a phantom user. The user identifier is used to establish the communication with the second subscriber.

Dial plan transparency for fragmented networks

In-band call association signaling for a single number destination

The present invention is directed to a secondary communication serverfor assuming control of a communication formerly controlled by a primary communication serverin the event of a failure, comprising:

A method and system for processing communication services for a mobile subscriber associated with a wireless network includes a database for storing location-dependent rules associated with at least one communication service subscribed to by the mobile subscriber. Service logic then determines a current location of the mobile subscriber and generates call processing instructions for processing the communication services based on the location-dependent rules and the current location of the mobile subscriber.

Method and system for providing location-sensitive call management services to a mobile subscriber

A method and system for providing preselected information services to a subscriber includes detection of an off-hook condition at a subscriber telephone line and determining the preselected information services for the subscriber. A message is generated corresponding to the determined information services by correlating the subscriber's directory number to the selected information services in the subscriber's profile.

Method and system for providing preselected information services upon detection of an off-hook condition

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Donald E Gillespie