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AssigneeBellSouth Intellectual Property Corporation
InventorsRobert A. Koch, Dale W. Malik, Scott Crandall Holt, Ward M. Chewning, III
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Methods and apparatus for obtaining capacity in the storage of an intelligent peripheral or other network element for additional entries without losing information relating to entries that have already been held in the storage. Such capacity is obtained by selecting certain entries from the storage, by sending the entry information as opposed to the certain entries to a repository, and by deleting the certain entries from the storage. Also, methods and apparatus are provided to retrieve the entry information that has been sent to the repository when such entry information is needed. Further, methods and apparatus are provided to update as necessary the entry information that has been sent to the repository.
In an intelligent peripheral having a storage and a repository, the storage including initialized entries and uninitialized entries, and the repository including entry information for other uninitialized entries, a method for responding to an initialization request, comprising the steps of:
In an intelligent peripheral having a storage and a repository, the storage including initialized entries and uninitialized entries, and the repository including entry information for other uninitialized entries, a method for responding to receipt of an update for an uninitialized entry, comprising the steps of:
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