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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:
Apr. 02, 2002
Filed:
Feb. 22, 2000
Steve M. Pullen, Rowlett, TX (US);
Daniel M. Spencer, Florence, TX (US);
Mario Monteiro, Garland, TX (US);
Navdeep G. Singh, Plano, TX (US);
Joseph E. Walker, Plano, TX (US);
Steven R. Carson, Allen, TX (US);
Alcatel USA Sourcing, L.P., Plano, TX (US);
Abstract
A generic translator ( ) is provided for processing service requests sent by a digit collection client ( ). Requests include billing validation ( ), call routing ( ), call screening ( ), account code validation ( ) or other services. These requests are processed by the generic translator ( ) and successful results are sent back to the digit collection client ( ) or a trunk selection process ( ). The generic translator ( ) can access an external entity ( ) to assist in digit translation ( ).