Method, system and apparatus for telecommunications control
AssigneeSprint Communications Company L.P.
InventorJoseph Michael Christie
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Abstract
The present invention includes a method, system, and apparatus for providing communication control. The invention includes a method in which signaling is processed externally to a switch before it is applied by the network elements. The processor is able to select network characteristics and signal the network elements based the selections. A network employing the processing method is also included, as well as a signaling system that employs the processing method.
Claims11
A method of extending a communications path in a communications system in response to signaling, wherein the communications system is comprised of a processor, an Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) multiplexer, and an ATM switch, wherein the method comprises:
- (a) receiving the signaling into the processor;
- (b) processing the signaling in the processor to select a first characteristic and a second characteristic for the communications path;
- (c) generating a first message and a second message in the processor wherein the first message incorporates the first characteristic and the second message incorporates the second characteristic;
- (d) transmitting the first message and the second message from the processor;
- (e) receiving the communications path and the first message into the ATM multiplexer;
- (f) extending the communications path from the ATM multiplexer to the ATM switch in response to the first message;
- (g) receiving the communications path and the second message into the ATM switch;
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- (h) extending the communications path from the ATM switch in response to the second message.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.