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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 24, 2009
Filed:
Dec. 08, 1999
Jan Medved, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Snehal Karia, Fremont, CA (US);
Jan Medved, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Snehal Karia, Fremont, CA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus are described for status enquiry between sending and receiving nodes in a network. For the sending node, the method comprises sending a bulk status enquiry message to inquire status of a plurality of calls to the receiving node. The bulk status enquiry message conforms to a bulk status enquiry format. For the receiving node, the method comprises sending a bulk status enquiry response message in response to a bulk status enquiry message inquiring status of a plurality of calls from the sending network node. The bulk status enquiry message conforms to a bulk status enquiry format and the bulk status enquiry response message conforms to a bulk status enquiry response format.