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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:
Oct. 19, 2004
Filed:
Oct. 05, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Ranga R. Dendi, Plano, TX (US);
Paul D. Litzenberger, Sachse, TX (US);
Timothy A. Morgan, Snellville, GA (US);
Shailin Sehgal, Allen, TX (US);
Assignee:
WorldCom, Inc., Ashburn, VA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 1/250 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 1/250 ;
Abstract
A system and method for implementing user-to-user information transfer services over a communications network having switches, a voice network, and a signaling network. The invention establishes a connection path over both the voice network and the signaling network for connections requested by users to follow such that multiple connections may utilize the same connection paths. Each of switches have available a database for tracking and maintaining current connection information for connections with other switches.