Lucent Technologies Inc.

Alcatel Lucent

Alcatel-lucent USA Inc.

Jason T Kuo

Robin Jeffrey Thompson

Albert Joseph Sawyer

Kenneth Wayne Shelhamer

Ismael Lopez

Huixian Song

Julian Maurico Guio

William Robert Davis

Ronald Frank Larson

Larry Phillip Stoa

A system and method is provided for conserving electrical power in a telecommunications facility () containing a plurality of like electrically powered hardware resources for transporting call traffic through the facility (). The method includes: monitoring a traffic load being experienced by the facility (); selecting one or more of the hardware resources in response to the monitored traffic load, such that the selected hardware resources have a capacity sufficient to reliably transport the monitored traffic load thereover; and consolidating call traffic in the selected hardware resources.

System and method for reducing power consumption in a telecommunications facility

The flexible through-connection process, operational in a Mobile Switch Center, that provides support for allowing the call routing processor of the Mobile Switch Center to independently perform a through-connection/switch-connection based on different types of calls so that the Mobile Switch Center can make a through-connection at different stages of the outgoing call leg. In operation, the present flexible through-connection process includes in the call control processor of the switching system a new parameter in the existing inter-process message which is sent to the call routing processor at call setup time. The values supported for this new parameter will be pre-defined in the Mobile Switch Center and used by the call routing processor to determine when to perform through-connection/switch-connection for an outgoing call leg. When the call routing processor routs the call out and the outgoing call is at the stage, in which the value of the parameter received is defined for, it performs a through-connection operation. Additionally this flexible through-connection process automatically disconnects the other call leg, i.e., switches the connection from one called leg to another called leg when multiple call legs are involved for an incoming call.

Flexible through-connection process in a mobile switch center when multiple outgoing call legs involved

A system for expanding a parameter encoding field in a new communications protocol that is compatible with an old protocol. An unused command parameter in an old protocol is used to indicate an expanded parameter encoding field in a new protocol. Parameter encodings from the old protocol are unchanged in the new protocol. A system communicating using the old protocol recognizes all parameters from the old protocol and ignores parameters from the new protocol. A system communicating using the new protocol recognizes parameters from both the old and new protocols.

System for expanding a parameter encoding field in a message to allow additional parameters to be added while maintaining compatibility with existing parameter encodings

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Jason T Kuo