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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.

Date of Patent:
Jun. 22, 2004

Filed:

Aug. 19, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:

Daniel F. Baker, Rolling Meadows, IL (US);

Thaddeus Rafacz, Lisle, IL (US);

Daniel L. Greene, Aurora, IL (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M 7/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M 7/00 ;
Abstract

A method and apparatus are provided for exchanging control information between a automatic call distributor and a public switched telephone network. The method includes the steps of identifying a subscriber channel between the automatic call distributor and public switched telephone network for use during a communication transaction and exchanging control information regarding the identified data channel over any of a plurality of available control channel between the public switch telephone network and automatic call distributor using nonassociative signaling.


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