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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 02, 1999
Filed:
Sep. 04, 1997
Applicant:
Inventor:
Robert Allen Swanson, Naperville, IL (US);
Assignee:
AT&T Corp., Middletown, NJ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M / ; H04M / ; H04M / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
379 34 ; 379-1 ; 379 12 ; 379 16 ; 379 23 ;
Abstract
A method for monitoring the signaling network in a telecommunication system comprises extending a copy of each signaling message processed by a particular signal transfer point to an interface unit. The interface unit relays 'of interest' messages to a signal monitoring system (SMS) in accordance with a pre-determined filtering protocol. In the SMS, messages are correlated in accordance with a pre-defined correlating protocol. The correlated signaling messages are subsequently retrieved by an OSS technician for analysis and updates.