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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:
Jun. 11, 2002
Filed:
Feb. 10, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Christopher Douglas Blair, Sussex, GB;
Roger Louis Keenan, West Sussex, GB;
Assignee:
Eyretel Limited, West Sussex, GB;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M 1/64 ; H04M 1/500 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M 1/64 ; H04M 1/500 ;
Abstract
A signal monitoring apparatus and method involving devices for monitoring signals representing communications traffic, devices for identifying at least one predetermined parameter by analyzing the context of the at least one monitoring signal, a device for recording the occurrence of the identified parameter, a device for identifying the traffic stream associated with the identified parameter, a device for analyzing the recorded data relating to the occurrence, and a device, responsive to the analysis of the recorded data, for controlling the handling of communications traffic within the apparatus.