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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 09, 2007
Filed:
Dec. 14, 2001
Ronald Franklin Watts, Lewisville, TX (US);
Ronald Franklin Watts, Lewisville, TX (US);
Alcatel, Paris, FR;
Abstract
Apparatus, and an associated method, for facilitating a call to a packet-network, telephonic station, such as an SIP phone. The call is originated at a originating station formed of a telephonic station of a time-domain-multiplexing network. A call establishment creator is embodied at a media server forming a portion of the packet data network. A call, originated at the originating station, is routed to the call establishment creator. Once the call is routed thereto, an interactive session is formed between the media server and the originating station. During the interactive session, the information needed to ascertain the identity of the terminating station is ascertained, and the call is routed thereto.