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AssigneeAT&T Corp.
InventorsTodd R. Bermudez, James Caldwell, Danny Chism, Roy DeFrain, Andrew Grigg, Kirk Warrenburg, William Yates
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A telephone network voting system is configured to process a large number of calls. The system receives telephone ballots cast by voters by dialing an 8YY telephone number. The telephone ballots are received by network edge switch (NES) from a local exchange carrier (LEC), and sequentially received calls are routed to a repeating sequence of segmentation databases (SDs). The SDs are configured for routing calls in a sequentially received series of 8YY calls to a repeating sequence of said NCPs. Switches are mapped to NCPs to minimize congestion on A and AA links. Call announcements are stored in disk cache.
A telephony-based system for processing ballots cast using 8YY calls during a mass polling event in a telecommunications network, comprising:
A method for balancing call traffic in a telephony-based voting system wherein ballot calls received by switches are mapped through signal transfer points (STPs), each STP having links to network control points (NCPs), the method comprising the steps of:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.