US 2003/0189941 A1 · Telecommunications apparatus, system, and method with an enhanced signal transfer point

Abstract

The present invention is an apparatus, system, and method for converting point codes in a signal transfer point in a telecommunications signaling system. The STP converts point codes which designate the origination and destination signaling points for the message. The conversion is based on information defined by the messages, such as origination or destination information. The present invention creates a virtual signaling system which can be reconfigured at the STP by converting point codes, and thus, altering the identities of the signaling points. The present invention is also operable to convert circuit identification codes and transfer integrated services user part messages to a user part.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A signaling network, comprising:

a signaling transfer point configured to receive a call-related signaling message having a first point code, convert the first point code to a second point code in the signaling message, transfer the signaling message having the second point code, generate a management message having the second point code, convert the second point code to the first point code in the management message, and transfer the management message;
and
a signaling system configured to receive the management message from the signaling transfer point.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

10/408,938Filed 8 Apr 2003

Priority

5 May 1994

Published

9 Oct 2003

Term ends

Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification30 codes

H04J 3/125
Arrangements providing for calling or supervisory signals: one of the channel pulses or the synchronisation pulse is also used for transmitting…
H04J 3/247
In which the allocation is indicated by an address the different channels being transmitted sequentially: aTM or packet multiplexing
H04L 49/25
Packet switching elements: routing or path finding in a switch fabric
H04L 49/253
Routing or path finding in a switch fabric: using establishment or release of connections between ports

Family

Application08/238,605Continuation in part · filed 5 May 1994

Application08/525,868Continuation · filed 8 Sep 1995

Application08/525,868Continuation in part · filed 8 Sep 1995

Application09/116,868Continuation · filed 16 Jul 1998

Application09/946,029Continuation · filed 4 Sep 2001

Application10/408,938Continuation · filed 8 Apr 2003

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