Call monitor for telecommunication exchange

Abstract

A call monitor for a telephone exchange, including a processor intervening in the establishment of a connection between associated line links with the aid of a switching network, comprises a first memory storing information about each line link and a second memory containing codes that identify all possible states of a connection of interest to the processor along with all intervening conditions termed evolutions. During a time slot allocated to a particular line link, a multibit comparator receives data from the first memory concerning a connection involving that line link, along with updating information from the line link itself, on one set of inputs and further receives, on another set of inputs, a succession of evolutionary codes read out from the second memory until a match is detected; the read-out is then terminated and an instruction, if required, is sent to the processor and/or to the switching network.