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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 10, 1999
Filed:
Aug. 29, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Kevin John McNeley, Succasunna, NJ (US);
Douglas Walter Sturm, Wheaton, IL (US);
Michelle Kust Yeager, Wheaton, IL (US);
Assignee:
Lucent Technologies Inc., Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04Q / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
370244 ; 370377 ; 370522 ;
Abstract
It is important to report alarm signals rapidly and reliably to the master control units responsible for automatically responding to these alarm signals. Advantageously this is accomplished by transmitting the alarm signals through a switching network of a telecommunications switch, using auxiliary signaling bits provided with each time slot that is switched through the network. The alarm signals are encoded in groups of eight, using one bit of each of eight related time slots to provide an alarm signal within one frame of a digital transmission signal.