US 5,828,666 AGranted

Access to telecommunications networks in multi-service environment

AssigneeNorthern Telecom Limited

InventorsMihai Focsaneanu, Richard Prescott Skillen, Frederick Caldwell Livermore

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Abstract

In current voice telephony, CATV, and wireless networks, traffic is channelized for both access and transport. This channelization is wasteful of resources where multiple services have varying demands for bandwidth and holding times, or a service generates traffic that is bursty in nature. The invention solves these problems by providing flexible and adapatable multiservice access to the networks. Customer requirements are checked by monitoring traffic on a local access at a connection request and/or during the established connection, and the local access is configured according to the transmission requirements. The local access can also be configured in response to the network information.

Claims6

Dependent claims

A method of interfacing one or more CPEs and communications networks which encompass one or more PSTN, data networks, wireless networks, satellite networks, CATV, ATM networks and other communications networks, through local access to form a universal services network comprising steps of:

extracting information content from traffic to determine requested services of said traffic at the local access between the one or more CPEs and the communications networks;
determining one or more appropriate networks among the communications networks or one or more appropriate CPEs, both of which support the requested services, according to the requested services;
routing the traffic directly either to the one or more appropriate networks among said one or more PSTN, data networks, wireless networks, satellite networks, CATV, ATM networks and other communications networks or to the one or more appropriate CPEs to complete interfacing between said appropriate CPEs and appropriate service Providers and/or network resources;
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building a local database or remote database.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 08/812,834Filed 6 Mar 1997 · continuation
Priority: 17 Aug 1995
Granted: 27 Oct 1998
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification30 codes

H04L 12/2876
Remote access server, e.g. BRAS: handling of subscriber policies
H04L 12/2801
Characterised by path configuration, e.g. LAN [Local Area Networks] or WAN [Wide Area Networks]: broadband local area networks
H04L 12/2856
Wide area networks, e.g. public data networks: access arrangements, e.g. Internet access
H04L 12/6418
Hybrid switching systems: hybrid transport