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Date of Patent:
Dec. 04, 2007

Filed:

Feb. 27, 2006
Applicants:

Charles Robert Kalmanek, Jr., Short Hills, NJ (US);

William Todd Marshall, Chatham, NJ (US);

Partho Pratim Mishra, Cupertino, CA (US);

Douglas M. Nortz, Red Bank, NJ (US);

Kadangode K. Ramakrishnan, Berkeley Heights, NJ (US);

Inventors:

Charles Robert Kalmanek, Jr., Short Hills, NJ (US);

William Todd Marshall, Chatham, NJ (US);

Partho Pratim Mishra, Cupertino, CA (US);

Douglas M. Nortz, Red Bank, NJ (US);

Kadangode K. Ramakrishnan, Berkeley Heights, NJ (US);

Assignee:

AT&T Corp., New York, NY (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M 7/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

Signaling messages are exchanged for a call between a calling party to a called party. A setup message for the call is exchanged through at least one gate controller. Network resources are reserved for the call based on the exchanged setup messages. An end-to-end message for the call is exchanged without the end-to-end message being routed through the at least one gate controller.


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