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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7353511 | Method and system for dynamically distributing updates in a network A first version of a program operating at a network site is updated by automatically downloading from a remote site any update for the program in response to an automated event. A downloaded update is installed to generate a second version of the program. The second... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7324634 | Telecommunications systems A telecommunications network includes a management system for analyzing call detail records (CDR's) from terminating switches. The management system recovers CDR's by polling through switch managers which poll dependent exchanges. CDR's indicating a call clear occur... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7302051 | System and method for providing an automatic telephone call back from information provided at a data terminal The system and method provides an automatic telephone call back in response to a request for assistance made at a remote data terminal by an inquiring party. The inquiring party provides information at the data terminal, the information is transferred over a data pa... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7298832 | Method for determining concurrent voice over IP calls A method employs call detail records for developing a report on the usage of VoIP calling along a network path or through a network location. By utilizing, for example, a call-beginning record and a call-ending record for each connection, a report is created of the ... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7231637 | Security and software testing of pre-release anti-virus updates on client and transmitting the results to the server A system, method and computer program product for testing scanner updates. Initially, a full-release scanner update is distributed from a server to a plurality of computers utilizing a network. A pre-release scanner update is also distributed from the server to the ... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7206394 | Methods and systems for dynamic, rules-based peg counting Methods and systems for dynamic, rules-based peg counting are disclosed. According to one method, a user creates peg counter definitions using a rules-based language accessible via a graphical user interface. The peg counter definitions are downloaded from an admini... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7197129 | Apparatus and method for translating global title in No. 7 signaling network In an apparatus and a method for translating a GT (global title) in a No.7 signaling network, the apparatus includes a general GTT module performing a general GTT function of a specific signaling point, a pre-fetch GTT module distributing the general GTT function to... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7174002 | Method and apparatus for ascertaining the capacity of a network switch Performance parameters of a switch may be ascertained by observing its behavior during a brief interval of high call volume. This may be achieved by accumulating call messages on a queue before allowing them to be processed together as a group. Without increasing th... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7162474 | Recipient controlled contact directories A presence system 4 manages communications in a network 2 between initiating parties 8 and recipient parties 6. The system 4 has a database 10 storing entries each relating to recipient parties 6. Each entry is stored... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7154865 | Application module interface for bidirectional signaling and bearer channels in a private branch exchange (PBX) environment An application module interface is disclosed that allows one or more modules to access voice or data channels in a private branch exchange environment that contains one or mole B channels (bearer channels) for transmitting voice or data signals, and one or more D ch... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7130397 | Apparatus, and an associated method, for detecting a mass call event and for ameliorating the effects thereof Apparatus, and an associated method, for detecting and facilitating amelioration of mass call event in a telephonic network. A detector monitors call attempts to form call connections during operation of the telephonic network. When more than a selected level of cal... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7054422 | Methods and systems for accessing peg count information generated by signaling gateway or signal transfer point A routing node (100) includes a usage measurements module (134) for polling internal processing modules (106) and communication link modules (102, 104, and 106) for usage measurements collected by these modules and forwarding the u... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7050555 | System and method for managing interconnect carrier routing A system and method for managing a carrier's interconnect traffic across a telecommunications network, the method involving receiving cost and routing rules from the carrier, gathering performance data corresponding to the interconnect traffic, applying the cost and... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7042996 | Method and apparatus for cas-based ring limiting of FXS ports A method and apparatus for call-limiting one or more candidate calls received by a router is disclosed. The method and apparatus may be configured to determine whether ringing one or more candidate calls will exceed a predetermined power limit. If ringing the calls ... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7024186 | Communication performance calculation method and communication performance calculation apparatus in mobile communication system, and blocking probability calculation method and blocking probability calculation apparatus in communication system, and recording medium A method etc. for calculating traffic distribution at base stations and accurately and simply calculating the performance in the base stations in a mobile communication system is provided. A method etc. for simply and accurately calculating the blocking probability ... | 04/04/2006 |
| 6983039 | Call admission control method and communication system to which method is applied Each communication is classified into any one of a plurality of communication types in advance. A plurality of threshold values used for determining whether or not the resources are to be allocated are set up in advance. The plurality of threshold values differ from... | 01/03/2006 |
| 6954520 | Method for determining concurrrent voice over IP calls A method employs call detail records for developing a report on the usage of VoIP calling along a network path or through a network location. By utilizing, for example, a call-beginning record and a call-ending record for each connection, a report is created of the ... | 10/11/2005 |
| 6914967 | Method for measuring quality of service in a telecommunications network A method for assessing the quality of service of telephone calls on a trunk includes identifying and counting telephone call sequences including a plurality of telephone calls placed on the trunk. Each of the telephone calls in the sequence has the same originating ... | 07/05/2005 |
| 6625266 | Event pre-processing for composing a report It is a problem with telecommunication equipment, such as a telephone exchange, that the counters produce so much information that the processes, such as statistic, traffic management and charging, do not have the time to process them. The system accordin... | 09/23/2003 |
| 6567510 | Traffic monitor for detecting trunk traffic congestion in a telephone switching network A traffic monitor listens passively on the data link used to communicate among switching systems for setting up telephone calls for call setup messages and checks the call setup messages for destination telephone number. If it determines that the destinat... | 05/20/2003 |
| 6519337 | Method for searching trunks in telecommunication N/Ws The present invention relates to a method for searching trunks in exchange systems that a subsystem searches a standby idle trunk for preparing a next trunk usage, stores information of the standby idle trunk and then processes a current call service by c... | 02/11/2003 |
| 6510218 | Process for distributing engagement requests depending on direction in two-way trunk groups A method for directional distribution of allocation in two-way alternate line bundles which are switched between computer-assisted exchange facilities in voice and data networks. This traffic management method makes it possible to ensure full capability o... | 01/21/2003 |
| 6330329 | Method and apparatus within a switch for performing circular hunts with a window Method and apparatus for performing circular hunts within a switch. Only a limited number of trunk groups are searched in a PSTN switch which has large numbers of trunks available. Additionally, the starting point of the search varies among the trunk grou... | 12/11/2001 |
| 6327361 | Multivariate rate-based overload control for multiple-class communications traffic A method and system for controlling overload at a network processor in a communications system. Messages relating to a plurality of types of calls, functions or processes (collectively, "calls") received at a processor seeking access to processor resource... | 12/04/2001 |
| 6301343 | Trunk line exchange system The present trunk line exchange system is capable of coping with the busy hour calls without falling into congestion by executing re-distribution of the number of communication lines to the busy region from the quite region, which results in yielding effi... | 10/09/2001 |
| 6285748 | Network traffic controller A network traffic control system that generates traffic monitor information by monitoring the network traffic and controls the network traffic based on the traffic monitor information. The network traffic monitoring system includes a network traffic monit... | 09/04/2001 |
| 6252950 | Predictive bursty real-time traffic control for telecommunications switching systems A traffic control system (and associated method) according to the present invention includes a feedback control mechanism in which the controlled variable is processor occupancy, the controlling variable is the amount of resources necessary to satisfy the... | 06/26/2001 |
| 6084955 | Communication network control method and apparatus A communication network includes a number of network nodes linked together by transmission paths. A network manager controls acceptance of calls onto transmission paths by classifying an incoming call and selecting from the database an appropriate mean to... | 07/04/2000 |
| 5978358 | Method for determining network switch capacity The switch capacity prediction process of the present invention collects operational measurements from the cellular switch. These operational measurements indicate the frequency of the call events processed by the switch. The other input/output (I/O) time... | 11/02/1999 |
| 5974126 | Method and telecommunications network for control of mass calling It is proposed that in a telecommunications network (KN) for control of mass callings to subscribers of the telecommunications network (KN) with exchanges (VST1, . . . , VST7), each of which has a control means (SM1), to perform measurements to detect a m... | 10/26/1999 |
| 5956392 | Private branch exchange apparatus A private branch exchange apparatus which encloses a plurality of external lines and a plurality of extensions including a discriminating circuit to discriminate the number of calls which are being executed and a refusing circuit to refuse a reception cal... | 09/21/1999 |
| 5956393 | System and method for limiting call velocity attempts in a public switched telephone network The present invention relates to a system and a method for limiting call velocity attempts in the public switched telephone network. A central office of the network is provided with a program element that examines all the physical channels from respective... | 09/21/1999 |
| 5953403 | Method for preventing call congestion on outgoing trunks of a local telephone exchange A system and method of preventing call congestion on outgoing trunks of a local telephone exchange is provided. A virtual trunk group representing a percentage of the total trunk capacity is assigned at the local exchange for carrying calls which are like... | 09/14/1999 |
| 5937412 | Method and system for packaging service logic programs in an advanced intelligent network A method of packaging service logic programs for dissemination in a telecommunications network includes receiving a request to package a service logic program having a plurality of service independent blocks associated with a plurality of parameters. The ... | 08/10/1999 |
| 5933481 | Method of controlling call traffic in a telecommunication system A method of controlling call traffic in a telecommunication system by dynamically altering the rate at which offered calls are accepted includes the steps of successively determining the offered call rate, and accepting calls from the offered calls, at a ... | 08/03/1999 |
| 5923742 | System and method for detecting mass addressing events A system and method for detecting mass addressing events comprising a first register, a second register, a first counter, and a second counter is disclosed. Potential mass addressing events are detected by comparing a most recently selected address to the... | 07/13/1999 |
| 5917886 | Method and equipment for monitoring the condition of an interconnection network A method and equipment for monitoring the condition of an interconnecting interfaces, in which counters, specific to each interconnection interface are provided. Each counter is preset to a predetermined initial value, which is changed on the basis of the... | 06/29/1999 |
| 5903635 | Advertising effectiveness rating system An advertising effectiveness rating system provides advertising effectiveness rating data by assigning one telephone number to each of a plurality of advertising outlets and counting the number of times that each of the assigned telephone numbers are used... | 05/11/1999 |
| 5881140 | Apparatus and method of determining switch utilization within a telecommunications network A telecommunications network (10) includes a plurality of telecommunication switches (12). Each telecommunication switch (12) includes a set of processors (14) in order to provide a distributed architecture. A network processor (16) periodically communica... | 03/09/1999 |
| 5848139 | Telecommunication traffic pricing control system Delay-tolerant calls access slack capacity in a telecommunications network under variable pricing controlled by the network so as to permit the network to pick up or stimulate background traffic loads as and when desired to gain revenue from background id... | 12/08/1998 |
