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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 23, 2000
Filed:
Oct. 09, 1998
Deborah Bauer, Leesburg, VA (US);
Ross Edward Button, Ontario, CA;
Mike Cavanagh, Woodlawn, CA;
Susan Jane 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 method and system for processing data records from a telephone data repository to a receiving system having a message queue and a response queue. The method for processing data records comprising the steps of reading a response from the response queue and whenever the response is successfully read, processing the response. This step is then repeated until there are no more responses to be read. Next, a data record is retrieved from the telephone data repository and whenever the data record is successfully retrieved, the data record is formated into a message and putting the message in the message queue. This step is then repeated until a specified number of data records have been retrieved or there are no more data records to be retrieved. The system comprises a data processor, a first communications link connecting the data processor to a telephone data repository, a second communications link connecting the data processor to a message queue, and a third communications link connecting the data processor to a response queue. The data processor is configured to retrieve a data record from the telephone data repository via the first communications link, format the data record into a message and send the message to the message queue via the second communications link.