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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 21, 2002
Filed:
Nov. 15, 1999
Elisabeth Gasthaus, München, DE;
Peter Hanselka, München, DE;
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Abstract
Switching equipment for setting up a connection between at least two pieces of terminal equipment wherein terminal equipment-related supplementary information such as, for example, the telephone number of calling terminal equipment is transmitted in addition to the actual voice information. In order to prevent an overload of an exchange processor means of the individual exchange units, it is inventively proposed to provide monitoring means that monitor the usage degree of the individual exchange processor means and, given upper transgression of a specific usage degree, delay the enable of second transmission units provided for the transmission of the terminal equipment-related supplementary information dependent on the usage degree of the corresponding exchange processor means.