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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 02, 2001
Filed:
Jun. 28, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Seyhan Civanlar, Middletown Township, Monmouth County, NJ (US);
William J. Leighton, III, Scotch Plains, NJ (US);
Vikram R. Saksena, Freehold, NJ (US);
Assignee:
AT&T Corp., New York, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M 1/64 ; H04M 7/00 ; H04M 3/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M 1/64 ; H04M 7/00 ; H04M 3/00 ;
Abstract
A method is disclosed for establishing communication between an originating station and a destination station over a computer network such as the Internet, for example. In accordance with the invention, at least one service attribute requested by the originating station is received over a signaling path. A communication path is then established between the originating and destination stations in conformance with the requested service attribute. The signaling path is an out-of-band signaling path with respect to the communication path.