At+t Corp.

Todd R Bermudez

William D Yates

James Caldwell

Andrew Grigg

Danny Chism

Kirk Warrenburg

Roy DeFrain

A telephone network voting system is configured to process a large number of calls. The system receives telephone ballots cast by voters by dialing an 8YY telephone number. The telephone ballots are received by network edge switch (NES) from a local exchange carrier (LEC), and sequentially received calls are routed to a repeating sequence of segmentation databases (SDs). The SDs are configured for routing calls in a sequentially received series of 8YY calls to a repeating sequence of said NCPs. Switches are mapped to NCPs to minimize congestion on A and AA links. Call announcements are stored in disk cache.

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Cincinnati, OH, United States of America

Todd R Bermudez