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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 04, 2000
Filed:
Oct. 09, 1998
Deborah Bauer, Leesburg, VA (US);
Ross Edward Button, Ontario, CA;
Mike Cavanagh, Woodlawn, CA;
Susan Jane McQuigge Ernst, Gloucester, CA;
Kevin Germann, Gatineau, CA;
Ralph Holmes, Glenn Dale, MD (US);
Samuel S Howlette, Great Falls, VA (US);
William Kalyn, Kanata, CA;
Steve Sauve, Orleans, CA;
Francis Cornelius Sommers, Ottawa, CA;
MCI Communications Corporation, Washington, DC (US);
Abstract
The present invention provides a system and method for testing a telephone data interface system. The telephone data interface is tested by reading one or more data records, connecting to the telephone data interface system, connecting the telephone data interface system to a external system emulator, sending one or more messages using the one or more data records to the telephone data interface system, formatting the one or more data records into one or more formatted messages that are compatible with the external system emulator, sending the one or more formatted messages to the external system emulator, and processing the one or more formatted messages. The present invention also provides a testing system comprising a test data source, a telephone data interface, an external system emulator, a first communications link connecting the test data source to the telephone data interface system, and a second communications link connecting the telephone data interface system to the external system emulator.