Telecommunication system with delay data buffer and method
AssigneeRockwell International Corporation
InventorsWilliam A. Fechalos, Barry W. Jones
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Abstract
A telecommunication system (10) having a multiport receiving switch (12) with a central control circuit (14) for distributing information received over a multichannel link (28) from a multiport sending switch (30) to at least one of a plurality of various applications in the telecommunication system (10) with a data delay buffer (54) for temporarily delaying the sending of data transmitted across the multichannel link (28) to a peripheral circuit (26) for a predetermined interval in response to the seizing of a channel at the receiving switch (12).
Claims42
In a telecommunication system having a multiport receiving switch with a central control circuit for distributing information received over a multichannel link from a multiport sending switch to at least one of a plurality of peripheral circuits which perform a plurality of various applications in the telecommunications system, the improvement being a data delay buffer, comprising:
- means responsive to receipt of certain signalling information at the receiving switch to seize a channel at the receiving switch for receipt of data transmitted from the sending switch to at least one of the peripheral circuits of the receiving switch;
- and
- means responsive to the seizing of the channel at the receiving switch for temporarily delaying the sending of the data to at least one of the peripheral circuits for a predetermined interval.
In a telecommunication system having a multiport receiving switch with a central control circuit for distributing information received over a multichannel link from a multiport sending switch to at least one of a plurality of peripheral circuits which perform a plurality of various applications in the telecommunication system, the improvement being a delay data buffer, comprising:
- means for maintaining a temporary delay for the sending of data transmitted from the multiport sending switch to one of the plurality of peripheral circuits at the multiport receiving switch;
- and
- means for removing the temporary delay maintaining means in response to the connection of a call between the multiport sending switch and the multiport receiving switch.
In a telecommunication system having a multiport receiving switch with a central control circuit for distributing information received over a multichannel link from a multiport sending switch to at least one of a plurality of peripheral circuits which perform a plurality of various applications in the telecommunication system, the improvement being a method for delaying sending of data to a peripheral circuit, comprising the steps of:
- seizing a channel at the receiving switch for receipt of data transmitted from the sending switch to at least one of the peripheral circuits of the receiving switch in response to receipt of certain signaling information at the receiving switch;
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- temporarily delaying the sending of the data to the at least one of the peripheral circuits for a predetermined interval in response to the seizing of the channel at the receiving switch.
In a telecommunication system having a multiport receiving switch with a central control circuit for distributing information received over a multichannel link from a multiport sending switch to at least one of a plurality of peripheral circuits which perform a plurality of various applications in the telecommunication system, the improvement being a method for delaying the sending of data to a peripheral circuit, comprising the steps of:
- maintaining a temporary delay for the sending of data transmitted from the multiport sending switch to one of the plurality of peripheral circuits at the multiport receiving switch;
- and
- removing the temporary delay in response to the connection of a call between the multiport sending switch and the multiport receiving switch.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.