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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. 20, 2001
Filed:
Aug. 19, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Robert Michael Jordan, Winchester, GB;
Andrew Ritchie, Eastleigh, GB;
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corp., Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 1/266 ; H04B 7/212 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 1/266 ; H04B 7/212 ;
Abstract
A voice processing system is attached to a switch via an ATM link, the switch being in turn attached to the telephone network. The voice processing system handles incoming or outgoing calls transmitted over the ATM link, which supports a plurality of virtual connections. The voice processing system includes a time division multiplex (TDM) bus having multiple timeslots, and an adapter card for attachment to the ATM link for transferring data between a virtual connection on the ATM link and one or more timeslots on the TDM bus.