Multiplex communications – Pathfinding or routing – Combined circuit switching and packet switching
Reexamination Certificate
2004-05-10
2008-08-12
Gauthier, Gerald (Department: 2614)
Multiplex communications
Pathfinding or routing
Combined circuit switching and packet switching
C370S401000, C370S466000, C379S219000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07411939
ABSTRACT:
A telecommunications system uses software applications called user agents, that are preferably Internet-based and that operate on behalf of users in a telecommunications hosting server to control call connections under control of a telecommunications network server that interfaces with the telecommunications hosting server as well as a connection-based public telephone network. The telecommunications hosting server operates on a computer network on behalf of the user agents to provide call signaling in support of many advanced calling and telecommunications services. The functionality and performance (e.g., execution) of the user agent(s) preferably takes place primarily within the telecommunications hosting server, though user client computers can provide some and possibly all of the user agent functionality, depending upon the particular implementation chosen.
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Lamb Christopher H.
Petrack Scott B.
Slaughter, III Frank G.
Toga James E.
Alcatel Lucent
Gauthier Gerald
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