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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 14, 2000
Filed:
Dec. 31, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Gene Gilles Thomas, Cary, NC (US);
Phyllis Page, Cary, NC (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
379 15 ; 379-9 ; 379 32 ; 370244 ;
Abstract
A system and method for providing maintenance arbitration at a switching node connected to a public carrier network. The system provides localized maintenance, fault toleration, proactive diagnostics, platform independence, and rule-based code behavior modification to deliver the best service possible based on the service capability and fault condition of switching node components.