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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 04, 2017
Filed:
Jan. 13, 2015
Alcatel Lucent, Boulogne Billancourt, FR;
Ramachendra P. Batni, Phoenix, AZ (US);
Ranjan Sharma, New Albany, OH (US);
Alcatel Lucent, Boulogne-Billancourt, FR;
Abstract
In an apparatus and method, one method example has the steps of: placing a call from a calling terminal to a called terminal in a cable telecommunication network, and communicating with a ring back application; initiating a new call by the ring back application to the called terminal via a call management server; ringing the called terminal by the call management server and providing an indication of the ringing to the ring back application; and sending, by the ring back application, a predetermined ring back signal to the calling terminal. Upon answer by the called party, the ring back application informs the calling party end device of the called party's address, and upon receiving the acknowledgement from the calling party's end-device it stops the predetermined ring back signal and informs the called party end device to cut thru the bearer path to the calling party's device. Finally, upon call termination by one of the parties, the application facilitates the tear down of the call by relaying the appropriate messages between the equipment involved in the call between the calling and called parties.