Arrangement of interactive telephone switching processors and associated

Abstract

A telephony switching system for interconnecting a plurality of telephone lines. A port storage circuit dedicates an area to each telephone line for storing status information including supervisory information and dial digit information for the corresponding telephone. A port event processor monitors incoming supervisory information from each port means connected to each telephone line to update the corresponding information in each area of the port storage circuit. Upon the occurrence of predetermined events, such as the receipt of all the digits in a telephone number, the port event processor produces an event code that is also stored in the port storage area. A call processor scans all the port storage areas to establish, for each port means, a progression of call states in response to the event information and other information in the port storage circuit and to update control information in the corresponding area. The port event processor transmits control supervisory information to each port means in response to information in the corresponding port storage area. During digit dialing operations, each port store area accumulates all the digits for the corresponding telephone and corresponding locations whereby the port storage means can accumulate digits from all the telephone lines.