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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 28, 2004
Filed:
Mar. 04, 1999
Jeffrey D. Bouis, Frisco, TX (US);
Michael P. Dimitroff, Plano, TX (US);
Alan T. Huch, Addison, TX (US);
Gregory M. Vaudreuil, Dallas, TX (US);
Avaya Technology Corp., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Abstract
For use with analog telecommunications equipment that responds to in-band stimuli, a system for, and method of suppressing an in-band stimulus and a telecommunications infrastructure employing the system or the method. In one embodiment, the system includes: (1) a stimulus detector, associated with the analog telecommunications equipment, that detects a presence of the in-band stimulus and (2) a stimulus suppressor, coupled to the stimulus detector, that alters the in-band stimulus to cause the analog telecommunications equipment to disregard the in-band stimulus.