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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7289493 | System and method for providing location independent voice communications continuity through disasters A method and system, employing IP telephony, for providing continuous, uninterrupted voice communications during disaster conditions wherein the disaster site telephone infrastructure has been rendered inoperable or inaccessible. The system uses Voice over IP (VoIP)... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7216164 | Methods and apparatus for determining the performance of a server Mechanisms and techniques provide a method for determining the performance of a server, based upon a connection characteristic of a connection between the server and a client. The connection characteristic, such as the window size of the server, provides information... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7187651 | Overload reduction in a communication system Reducing overload conditions of a node of communication system comprises storing one or more sets of overload range values, where each set represents a range of used capacity of a component of the node. A rejection proportion value is stored in association with each... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7187758 | Organization of a telecommunication network in exceptional cases A method for operating a telecommunication network in exceptional situations includes defining a group of connections of the network, the connections each having a respective terminal connected thereto, the connections being dialable via individual network identific... | 03/06/2007 |
| 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 |
| 5844974 | Emergency telephone communications system An emergency telephone communications system allows communications during congestion in the event of disaster. The system includes an exchange and telephones connected to the line circuits thereof. The exchange sends a congestion generation signal to a co... | 12/01/1998 |
| 5841848 | System and method for completing telephone calls to emergency telephone numbers in highly concentrated access systems Disclosed is a system and method which screens all telephone call originations on an access system for calls to emergency services during times of telephone system congestion and bases a decision as to how to handle the call on such determination. Accordi... | 11/24/1998 |
| 5596632 | Message-based interface for phone fraud system Telephone fraud is monitored by effectively interfacing workstations with a fraud data server. Multiple customers may have their respective workstations coupled to the data server with attendant limited access to ensure security. A workstation manager and... | 01/21/1997 |
| 5581610 | Method for network traffic regulation and management at a mediated access service control point in an open advanced intelligent network environment A method of regulating and managing network traffic at a mediated access service control point in an advanced intelligent switched telephone network that allows a local exchange carrier to monitor and enforce traffic rates negotiated between the local exc... | 12/03/1996 |
| 5410586 | Method for analyzing an IDNX network A method for simulating an IDNX (integrated digital network exchange) network. Trunk and call information is downloaded from a network controller connected to the IDNX network to a personal computer. Call data is obtained defining each call placed over th... | 04/25/1995 |
| 4696029 | Telephone traffic load control system A system for controlling the initiation of voting telephone calls by controlling character generators at a group of affiliated television broadcast stations through a control center which receives real-time feedback of telephone voting traffic data from p... | 09/22/1987 |
| 4658098 | Circuit arrangement for telecommunications switching systems, particularly telephone switching systems, comprising information-processing central switch devices and sub-central switching facilities which supply the same with information Call-associated series of information-processing requests, accepted in decentralized switching facilities, are composed of initial switch identifiers which arrive first and of successor switch identifiers arrive following thereupon and are transmitted to ... | 04/14/1987 |
| 4649234 | Circuit arrangement for telecommunications exchange systems, particularly telephone exchange systems, comprising information processing sequential logic systems and traffic measuring devices A circuit arrangement for telecommunications exchange systems, particularly telepone exchange systems, comprising information processing sequential logic systems and traffic measuring devices, is provided for handling processing requests. Processing reque... | 03/10/1987 |
| 4629830 | Telecommunications system, particularly a telephone exchange system, having overload protected sequential logic systems For the purpose of averting overloads in a telephone exchange system which comprises information-processing sequential logic systems and overload averting circuits, seizures are counted by the counter according to their respective significance or weightin... | 12/16/1986 |
| 4564725 | Telecommunications system, particularly a telephone exchange system, having overload protected sequential logic systems In a telephone exchange system comprising information-processing sequential logic systems and devices for averting overloads, the group processor requests which occur for the incoming through-connections are rejected first given a necessity of an overload... | 01/14/1986 |
| 4200771 | Traffic measuring device based on state transitions The invention described herein is a traffic measurement device, particularly applicable to telecommunication networks. The device is of the digital type and relies on state transitions caused by the origination and termination of calls. This type of measu... | 04/29/1980 |
