AT&T Intellectual Property I, LP

At+t Corp.

At&t Bell Laboratories

Joel Goldman

Lawrence Richard Rabiner

Dennis Matthew Romain

Patrick Michael Velardo, Jr

A system and method for bridging the POTS network and a packet network, such as the Internet, uses a set of access objects that provide the interfacing and functionality for exchanging address and payload information with the packet network, and for exchanging payload information with the payload subnetwork and signaling information with the signaling subnetwork of the POTS network. The system includes a communications management object that coordinates the transfer of information between the POTS network and the packet network; a payload object that transfers payload information between the system and the payload subnetwork of the first communications network; a signaling object that transfers signaling information between the system and the signaling subnetwork of the first communications network in accordance with a signaling protocol associated with the signaling subnetwork; and a packet object that transfers payload and address information between the system and the second communications network in accordance with a communications protocol associated with the second communications network. An alternative embodiment uses a plurality of payload, signaling and packet objects to provide a scalable system.

POTS/packet bridge

Pots/packet bridge

An arrangement is shown for combining multisource randomly occurring data, such as seismic or sonar data, into a single output signal. Histories of simultaneously occurring data from each source are accumulated, and their power levels compared to determine which is likely to have significant data, as distinguished from noise. The largest of the data so compared in a given time epoch determines the source to be used in a succeeding epoch to provide the output contribution for that succeeding epoch.

Multi-channel data signal combining arrangement

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Randolph, NJ, United States of America

Joel Goldman