US 8,897,287 B2Granted

System and method for processing a plurality of requests for a plurality of multi-media services

AssigneeAT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P.

InventorsStephanie Parlamas, Harish Samarasinghe

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Abstract

A system and method for processing a plurality of requests for a plurality of multi-media services received at a Private Service Exchange (PSX) defined on the system from a plurality of IP-communication devices. The system further includes a media server (MS) coupled to the PSX and to at least one IP Service Control Point (IP-SCP), which is operative to process the plurality of requests for the plurality of multi-media services. The IP-SCP further selectively directs the requests to the media server, which operates to form a preliminary multi-media communication path with a calling communication device. The MS further operates to play a plurality of announcements to the calling communication device over the preliminary multi-media communication path, as well as to collect caller-entered data from the calling communication device over the preliminary multi-media communication path.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A method of processing a multi-media service request, comprising:

receiving, by a processor, a request message in a third format and processing the request message in the third format at the processor for generating a media server instruction message in the third format, wherein a gateway controller has received the request message in a first format for a multi-media service and translated the request message in the first format into a request message in a second format, and wherein a switching device has received the request message in the second format and translated the request message in the second format into the request message in the third format;
and
transmitting, by the processor, the media server instruction message in the third format to the switching device for enabling the switching device to translate the media server instruction message into the second format, and to forward the media server instruction message in the second format to the gateway controller for enabling the gateway controller to map an attribute of the media server instruction message in the second format into a media server instruction message in a fourth format, where the media server instruction message in the fourth format is destined to a media server for forming a multi-media communication path with a communication device at a customer premises.

An apparatus for processing a multi-media service request, comprising:

a processor;
and
a computer-readable medium storing a plurality of instructions which, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations, the operations comprising:
receiving a request message in a third format and processing the request message in the third format for generating a media server instruction message in the third format, wherein a gateway controller has received the request message in a first format for a multi-media service and translated the request message in the first format into a request message in a second format, and wherein a switching device has received the request message in the second format and translated the request message in the second format into the request message in the third format;
and
transmitting the media server instruction message in the third format to the switching device for enabling the switching device to translate the media server instruction message into the second format, and to forward the media server instruction message in the second format to the gateway controller for enabling the gateway controller to map an attribute of the media server instruction message in the second format into a media server instruction message in a fourth format, where the media server instruction message in the fourth format is destined to a media server for forming a multi-media communication path with a communication device at a customer premises.

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Facts

Application: 13/901,440Filed 23 May 2013 · continuation
Priority: 14 Nov 2002
Published: US 2013/0250940 A126 Sep 2013
Granted: 25 Nov 2014
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification5 codes

H04M 3/382
Graded-service arrangements, i.e. some subscribers prevented from establishing certain connections: using authorisation codes or passwords
H04L 12/66
Data switching networks: arrangements for connecting between networks having differing types of switching systems, e.g. gateways
H04L 65/1053
Architectures or entities: iP private branch exchange [PBX] functionality entities or arrangements
H04M
Telephonic communication

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Application10/294,855Parent of this continuation · filed 14 Nov 2002
Application12/110,838Parent of this continuation · filed 28 Apr 2008
US 7,366,159 B1Parent of this continuation · filed 29 Apr 2008
Application12/831,078Parent of this continuation · filed 6 Jul 2010
US 7,756,121 B2Parent of this continuation · filed 13 Jul 2010
US 2013/0250940 A1Pre-grant publication · published 26 Sep 2013
US 8,451,820 B2Parent of this continuation
US 2008/0267369 A1Published application
US 2010/0265939 A1Published application
US 8,897,287 B2This patent

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