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.
Claims38
A method of operating a processing system to control a packet communication system for a user communication, the method comprising:
- receiving a signaling message for the user communication from a narrowband communication system into the processing system;
- processing the signaling message to select a network code that identifies a network element to provide egress from the packet communication system for the user communication;
- generating a control message indicating the network code;
- transferring the control message from the processing system to the packet communication system
- receiving the user communication in the packet communication system and using the network code to route the user communication through the packet communication system to the network element;
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- transferring the user communication from the network element to provide egress from the packet communication system.
A method of operating a processing system to control a packet communication system for a user communication, the method comprising:
- selecting a network code that identifies a network element to provide egress for the user communication from the packet communication system to a narrowband communication system;
- generating a control message indicating the network code and transferring the control message from the processing system to the packet communication system;
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- generating a signaling message for the user communication and transferring the signaling message from the processing system to the narrowband communication system;
- receiving the user communication in the packet communication system and using the network code to route the user communication through the packet communication system to the network element;
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- transferring the user communication from the network element to the narrowband communication system to provide egress from the the packet communication system.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.