Lucent Technologies Inc.

Yik-Ming Ho

Mark Michael Clougherty

Stuart Warmink

The extended messaging scheme adds additional packet formats to the prior art 6-byte Lucent Access Interface Unit (AIU) Message Format of Table 1. The extended messaging scheme supports multi-packet messaging over telecommunication system configurations not supported by the prior art AIU Message Format. In one implementation, the extended messaging scheme includes (1) a &ldquo;first-of-many&rdquo; packet format for the initial data packets of messages requiring more than one 6-byte data packet, (2) a &ldquo;continuation&rdquo; packet format for the one or more subsequent data packets corresponding to such multi-packet messages, and (3) a &ldquo;first-and-only&rdquo; packet format for messages requiring only a single data packet. The extended messaging scheme enables telecommunication systems to be configured with one or more (possibly non-co-located) client terminals in addition to a main remote terminal to provide telecommunication services to a large number of widely distributed customers.

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