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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 27, 2009
Filed:
Oct. 19, 2005
Todd R. Bermudez, Cincinnati, OH (US);
James Caldwell, De Mossville, KY (US);
Danny Chism, Erlanger, KY (US);
Roy Defrain, Pickerington, OH (US);
Andrew Grigg, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Kirk Warrenburg, Cincinnati, OH (US);
William Yates, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Todd R. Bermudez, Cincinnati, OH (US);
James Caldwell, De Mossville, KY (US);
Danny Chism, Erlanger, KY (US);
Roy DeFrain, Pickerington, OH (US);
Andrew Grigg, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Kirk Warrenburg, Cincinnati, OH (US);
William Yates, Cincinnati, OH (US);
AT&T Corp, New York, NY (US);
Abstract
A telephone network voting system is configured to process a large number of calls. The system receives telephone ballots cast by voters by dialing an 8YY telephone number. The telephone ballots are received by network edge switch (NES) from a local exchange carrier (LEC), and sequentially received calls are routed to a repeating sequence of segmentation databases (SDs). The SDs are configured for routing calls in a sequentially received series of 8YY calls to a repeating sequence of said NCPs. Switches are mapped to NCPs to minimize congestion on A and AA links. Call announcements are stored in disk cache.