Excel Switching Corporation

Gary Baldino

Timothy Ray Locascio

James Thomas DellaMorte, Sr

John R DeCesare

Rajnish Jain

Patricia Langley

A system and method are disclosed for the licensing and managing media resources in a converged services platform. A novel central pool of resource points representing a licensed level of media resource capability is created, the central pool for the storage of all default and any additional licensed resource points represented by the converged services platform, where portions of the central pool are dynamically allocated to one or more media resource cards.

Media resource card with dynamically allocated resource points

A media resources card for use with a converged services platform. The media resources card, which includes one or more arrays of digital signal processors (DSPs), s operable to perform a variety of communication services including recording and playback of voice recorded announcements. A caching arrangement is provided in which a given recording (file) may have either a persistence level or timer expiration attribute or both.

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Milford, CT, United States of America

Gary Baldino