Alternate service activation

Patent 5761290 Issued on June 2, 1998. Estimated Expiration Date:

October 11, 2015. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.

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Inventors

Assignee

Bell Atlantic Network Services, Inc.

Application

No. 540701 filed on 10/11/1995

US Classes:

379/221.11, Adjunct or intelligent peripheral (IP)379/219, PLURAL EXCHANGE NETWORK OR INTERCONNECTION379/221.09, Service control point (SCP, ISCP, external database)379/230, Signalling path distinct from trunk (e.g., CCIS)379/279Control reliability (e.g., redundancy)

Examiners

Primary: Hunter, Daniel S.
Assistant: Wolinsky, Scott

Attorney, Agent or Firm

Lowe, Price, LeBlanc & Becker

International Class

H04M 003/42

Abstract

A peripheral platform, such as an Intelligent Peripheral (IP), is provided in a Common Channel Interoffice Signaling (CCIS) network having a Services Control Point (SCP) and intelligent network capabilities. The IP or similar platform provides alternate service activation (ASA) and obviates the necessity for the SCP to store a large number of subscriber service profiles. The IP has a call channel link to central office switches of the telephone network and has a data link to the SCP. On receiving a request for activation of alternate service the IP communicates with the SCP and the SCP communicates with the switching offices to retrieve a subscriber service profile from one central office switch and downloads and double assigns that profile to a second central office switch which may thereafter implement the features in that downloaded profile.