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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 31, 1996
Filed:
Jun. 22, 1995
Anjana Agarwal, Wheaton, IL (US);
Chinmei C Lee, Woodridge, IL (US);
Lucent Technologies Inc., Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Abstract
A process and apparatus providing local hunting of a telecommunication trunk in response to a request coming from an external base station or switching unit. This process and apparatus by utilizing the capabilities of a local switching module or node saves communication time and processor time of the overall system. If the local trunk hunt at the local switching module is unsuccessful, the request is forwarded to a centralized processor that subsequently notifies another switching module to hunt a trunk and set-up communication with the requesting external base station or switching unit. In such a case, the centralized processor uses status table data to select a switching module that should have a trunk available to fulfill the request of the external base station or switching unit.