At&t Intellectual Property I, L.p.

At+t Corp.

American Telephone & Telegraph Co., At&t Bell Laboratories

At&t Bell Laboratories

Larry A Russell

John Jutten Lawser

Fred Burg

John Kantonides

Marian Rogers Croak

Radhika R Roy

Siroos K Afshar

Samuel Glazer

Barbara Joanne Kittredge

John Carl Brown

Magda K Nassar

Roger E Stone

Karen McGregor-Barnes

Steve Fisher

Enrique G Cuevas

Mark Jeffrey Foladare

Han Q Nguyen

Alireza Farid Faryar

Steven M Michelson

Alan Eugene Frey

James J Mansell

Gerald L Hoover

Thomas Earl Bowers

Howard A Kerr

Jerry Allen Robinson

Carl E Betta

Reinhard Metz

John T Mulligan

Anand Kumar Singh

Diane E Herr

Burwell Goode

Warren R Moe

Susan Roberta Bailey

Teresa L Russell

Catherine A Schevon

Bisrat Bulcha

Joubine Dustzadeh

A telephone network voting system receives telephone ballots cast by voters by dialing a telephone number. The telephone number is dialed by voters spread over a large geographic area. The voting calls are routed to points of presence local to or otherwise identified with the caller by using the caller's ANI or other originating number identification. The points of presence then accumulate votes and periodically forward tallies to a centralized location over a data network. Instructions may be transmitted from the centralized location to the points of presence.

Techniques for telephony-based voting

A call between a calling party and a called party, one or both of whom may be subscribers to Internet Telephony (IT) services, commences upon the receipt of a call dialed by the calling party to the Plain Old Telephony Service (POTS) number associated with the calling party. A first hub receives the call and routes it to the called party if that party is not an IT services subscriber that is currently on line. If the called party is an IT services subscriber that is on-line, the call is received at an Internet Services Provider serving the called party. The ISP converts the call to an IT format if the call is not already in that format and thereafter delivers the call to the called party.

Method for completing internet telephony calls

Method and apparatus for providing integrated network and operations control for a converged communications network providing all service types on a common architecture.

Apparatus and method for controlling services and operations in converged communications networks

An access architecture for real-time communications is described. The architecture includes an inter-architecture network utilizing a single protocol, a plurality of border elements in communication with the inter-architecture network and with an external network, and one or more call control elements in communication with said inter-architecture network. The external network utilizes any of a variety of known networking technologies and protocols. The inter-architecture network utilizes a single protocol such as SIP. The present architecture provides a single common infrastructure for offering real-time communications services independent of call control protocols and networking technologies.

Access independent common architecture for real-time communications services for networking environments

A method for reducing latency of VoIP communications while efficiently using network resources and maintaining voice quality. This is achieved by managing packet size on a per-call basis, using factors such as distance between gateways, current backbone network status, service requested or access mechanism for a given call is disclosed. Packet size is selected on a per-call basis based on the distance between endpoints in the call. If the endpoints are far apart, the selected packet size is small. If the endpoints are close together, the selected packet size is large.

Method of sizing packets for routing over a communication network for VoIP calls on a per call basis

A network architecture () provides Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) service as well as multimedia and Internet web-based applications while implementing features common in a traditional telecommunications network. In response to an incoming call dialed to an IP endpoint (), the network will process the call, and in particular, convert the call, if in not already in a VoIP format, to such a format, while mapping signaling associated with the call into a compatible format. The VoIP call is then routed to the IP endpoint. In the event that the call requires an associated multimedia or Internet-web-based application, the network will initiate the application. Processing of the incoming call may require accessing of a common database to acquire a location routing number for the call destination. To afford dynamic addressing of the IP endpoints, each may be referenced by a corresponding Universal Resource Locator (URL) (or other indirect mapping) associated with the IP address of the endpoint.

Voice over IP service implementation for providing multimedia features

Certain exemplary embodiments provide a method, comprising: for each of a plurality of subscribed services associated with a subscriber endpoint in a communications network, for a connection associated with the subscribed service: determining a current QOS metric; and utilizing the current QOS metric and historical QOS metrics for the subscribed service, adjusting a QOS-affecting variable to change a future QOS metric.

Method and system for dynamically adjusting QOS

Control over the movement of packets is exercised by edge nodes of a network mapping the addresses of incoming packets in accordance with a prespecified functional mapping P. Remote sources of packets are provided address information that is mapped with a prespecified functional mapping Q, where mappings P and Q are such that P(Q(j)=j. The mapping change at regular intervals, or upon the occurrence of specified events, and with each change, the communicating the remote source is provided with a different mapped address to be used.

Controlled transmissions across packet networks

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Aberdeen, NJ, United States of America

Larry A Russell