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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:
Jul. 30, 1996
Filed:
Sep. 12, 1994
Applicant:
Inventor:
Robert D Farris, Sterling, VA (US);
Assignee:
Bell Atlantic, Arlington, VA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
370 601 ; 370 681 ; 3701101 ; 379105 ; 379220 ; 379230 ; 379246 ;
Abstract
To efficiently provide a variety of different services, e.g. voice grade telephony, packet data services, and broadband services, through an integrated network, at least some routing functions relating to all of the different types of services are controlled by data stored in a single central controller. Nodes or switching points performing the routing functions for the different types of services recognize certain call processing events as triggers. In response to a trigger, such a switching point will suspend processing of the particular call and obtain routing instructions from the central controller as to how to complete call processing.