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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 14, 2014
Filed:
Sep. 30, 2005
Siroos K. Afshar, Manalapan, NJ (US);
Gerald M. Ezrol, Herndon, VA (US);
Stephen Fisher, Mountain View, CA (US);
Samuel Glazer, New York, NY (US);
Radhika R. Roy, Howell, NJ (US);
Siroos K. Afshar, Manalapan, NJ (US);
Gerald M. Ezrol, Herndon, VA (US);
Stephen Fisher, Mountain View, CA (US);
Samuel Glazer, New York, NY (US);
Radhika R. Roy, Howell, NJ (US);
AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P., Atlanta, GA (US);
Abstract
A customer premises border element is disclosed that functions as an interface between devices, such as SIP devices located on a customer's premises, and a border element located in the service provider's network. Such customer premises border elements are advantageous in that they are relatively inexpensive since they only have to support devices located on the customer's premises. At the same time, by performing a number of functions, such as media transcoding and a portion of call processing, it reduces the processing requirements of network border elements.