At+t Corp.

AT&T Intellectual Property I, LP

James J Gallagher

Hossein Eslambolchi

Nicholas D De Trana

Craig L DeCaluwe

Paul Greendyk

Richard J Bruno

Gary A Martyn

Patricia Klink

Alan Eugene Frey

Gerald Richard Ash

Jiayu Chen

Clayton Lockhart

Kenneth K Chan

Andrew W Peck

Lockhart M Clayton

Ellen D Walbridge

Diana L Stipo

Craig L Decaluwe

Clayton M Lockhart

Telecommunications switching systems that require real-time computer control can be controlled using remotely located computers coupled to the switching systems via data links. By coupling several switching systems to one or more centrally located control computers, maintenance staffing can be reduced while increasing overall system reliability by providing back up control computers in multiple centralized locations. Centrally located control computers can be backed up with redundant computers at the central control site.

Method and apparatus for a remote signaling and call processing in a telecommunications network

The invention allows a customer to self-provision the routing of non-geographic calls along a communication network. The customer is allowed to interface a computer with terminating switches and network control point databases so that routing information regarding the transmission of non-geographic calls across the communication network can be added, edited or reconfigured according to the customer's calling requirements. First, the customer accesses the communications network and requests a non-geographic number. Second, if the non-geographic number is available, the customer can input information regarding internal routing numbers or implement various calling schemes such as time of day calling. Third, the customer can access trunk information on terminating switches and modify the trunk names as requirements in the customer's communication network change. The customer self-provisioning capability eliminates tasks performed by the service provider, such as routing translations and routing arrangements, and allows the customer greater control and quicker responses to the implementation of routing changes, reduces cycle time for the introduction of new services and reduces costs for service providers.

Method and apparatus for a customer self-provisioning of outpulsed digits in a telecommunication network

A telecommunication network may be arranged in accord with the invention so that a change in provisioning data occurring at one element of the network is automatically supplied to the other elements of the network, thereby eliminating the need of having a network administration facility to communicate manually the change to the other network elements. For example, if a local central office switch is rehomed from a first toll switch to a second toll switch, then the first and second toll switches form messages respectively characterizing the rehome and then send the messages to each of the other network toll switches so that the other toll switches may update their respective routing and trunking data relating to the rehomed switch. The network is also arranged to implement a rule-based, end-to-end routing scheme which automatically selects a routing path from multiple candidates based on (a) class-of-service parameters and (b) availability of network capacity. The automatic selection of a routing path thus replaces the provisioning of routing data in the toll switches, which data was priorly needed to select the appropriate routing path.

Automatic provisioning of trunking and routing parameters in a

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James J Gallagher