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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 22, 1998
Filed:
Sep. 30, 1996
Sylvain Jodoin, Montreal, CA;
Joanne Pilkington, St-Bruno, CA;
Pierre Belzile, Lachine, CA;
Charles Meubus, Westmount, CA;
Northern Telecom Limited, Montreal, CA;
Abstract
The invention manifests a secure, on-demand meet-me conferencing service embodied within a telephone network having an advanced intelligent network (AIN) infrastructure. Centralized control of conferencing bridges located in network switches is effected at a service control point (SCP) in the AIN telephone network. Routing and availability information with respect to the conferencing bridges is maintained by the SCP. When the SCP in communication with a network switch processing a call determines that the call is to initiate a conference, a bridge is allocated to the call. The availability information of the bridge is then updated and the SCP provides the network switch with routing instructions for connecting the call through the telephone network to the bridge.