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US 2011/0085542 A1Published application
Method and system for supporting shared local trunking
AssigneeVerizon Business Global LLC
InventorsJoel M. Krause, Gary Lance Lockhart, Carl T. Leonard
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Abstract
An approach is described for providing shared trunking between a telephony gateway and an end office switch. The telephony gateway processes a packetized voice call, and interfaces a shared trunk to an end office switch (e.g., Class 5 switch) configured to switch calls over a circuit-switched telephone network. The trunk utilizes out-of-band signaling (e.g., Primary Rate Interface (PRI) signaling) in support of call establishment or teardown of the packetized voice call.
Claims21
(canceled)
A method comprising:
- receiving a request for capacity from a user;
- determining a Rate Center (RC)/Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP) combination for the user;
- and
- allocating one or a plurality of channels within a shared trunk based on the determined RC/PSAP combination, wherein the trunk is shared among a plurality of users.
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An apparatus comprising:
- at least one processor;
- and
- at least one memory including computer program code for one or more programs,
- the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus to perform at least the following,
- receiving a request for capacity from a user,
- determining a Rate Center (RC)/Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP) combination for the user, and
- allocating one or a plurality of channels within a shared trunk based on the determined RC/PSAP combination, wherein the trunk is shared among a plurality of users.
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A method comprising:
- receiving a packetized voice call from a switch over a trunk, wherein the trunk is shared by a plurality of users according to Rate Center (RC)/Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP) combinations assigned to the users,
- wherein the packetized voice call is received over a corresponding channel associated with one of the users.
An apparatus comprising:
- at least one processor;
- and
- at least one memory including computer program code for one or more programs,
- the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus to perform at least the following,
- receiving a packetized voice call from a switch over a trunk, wherein the trunk is shared by a plurality of users according to Rate Center (RC)/Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP) combinations assigned to the users,
- wherein the packetized voice call is received over a corresponding channel associated with one of the users.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.