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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 19, 2004
Filed:
Jul. 20, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Clifford Atwood, Harvard, MA (US);
Jerry Stern, Sudbury, MA (US);
Assignee:
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M 3/42 ; H04M 3/523 ; H04M 3/54 ; H04M 3/58 ; H04M 7/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M 3/42 ; H04M 3/523 ; H04M 3/54 ; H04M 3/58 ; H04M 7/00 ;
Abstract
Call management techniques implemented using a call routing engine are disclosed. In the techniques of the present invention, a public network is centrally controlled so as to facilitate implementation of call processing features, and local switching resources and the public network may be thought of as a single virtual switch for purposes of implementing such features.