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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 08, 1997
Filed:
Dec. 29, 1995
Paramdeep Singh Sahni, Marlboro, NJ (US);
Andrew A Soong, Colts Neck, NJ (US);
AT&T, Middletown, NJ (US);
Abstract
In a network-based communication system, communication trunks are allocated based on a history of network use and global event calendar information relating to particular regions that the network system services. A trunk allocation database is used for controlling the normal day-to-day trunk allocations to assign the trunks among the various network services. A global event calendar database containing holiday and event information observed by various countries and regions is provided for dynamically re-allocating the trunk assignments for trunks servicing a particular country or region when a holiday or event for that particular region occurs. The global event calendar database also informationally provides network users calling a particular region with timely information pertaining to holidays or events in the particular country or region that the user has called.