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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 08, 2016
Filed:
May. 04, 2000
John K. Gallant, Plano, TX (US);
Steven R. Donovan, Plano, TX (US);
John K. Gallant, Plano, TX (US);
Steven R. Donovan, Plano, TX (US);
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Abstract
A method and system for dynamically selecting a destination gateway to complete a call over a path supported at least in part by an IP telephony network and a public switched telephone network. The method and system further provide for dynamically detecting available gateways, dynamically removing failed and/or unavailable gateways, and automatically recovering failed and/or unavailable gateways after a predetermined period of time. A method is also provided for detecting available destination gateways using a ping method, where a message is transmitted to a plurality of destination gateways on a one-by-one basis to ascertain the availability status of each destination gateway.