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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 27, 1993
Filed:
Apr. 01, 1991
Applicant:
Inventor:
Duane O Bowker, Neptune City, NJ (US);
Assignee:
AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M / ; H04M / ; H04Q / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
379220 ; 379229 ; 379235 ; 379343 ; 379408 ;
Abstract
A facility for establishing a signaling link over a telecommunications network connection formed by a number of network switches is provided so that an upstream switch may communicate with a downstream switch in the connection. The facility is particularly useful in controlling the number of times that signals traveling over the connection are subjected to a particular function.