Routing to intelligence
First Claim
1. A method for use in a telecommunications network which includes a plurality of intelligent network element servers supporting respective telecommunications application types, said method comprising the steps ofreceiving, at a point of distribution, and via a single access link, first and second outgoing calls of respective different ones of said application types originating from a particular subscriber location, said respective different ones of said outgoing call application types including two of POTS, ISDN, video and data, andmuting each of said outgoing calls from said point of distribution to a particular one of said intelligent network element servers, said particular one of said intelligent network element servers being determined based on the application type of said each outgoing call.
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Abstract
In a telecommunications network, outgoing calls from a particular subscriber location for each of a plurality of telecommunications applications are delivered via a single access link to a single point of distribution through which the subscriber location is caused to be connected, as a function of the telecommunications application type, to an appropriate intelligent network element (INE) server. Additionally, incoming calls of the various application types and directed to a particular directory number are delivered to a single point of collection associated with its NPA-NNX and connections for those calls are caused to be made from the point of collection to an appropriate INE server, as a function of the telecommunications application type and the directory number in question. Communications within the network are by way of asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) cells.
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30 Claims
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1. A method for use in a telecommunications network which includes a plurality of intelligent network element servers supporting respective telecommunications application types, said method comprising the steps of
receiving, at a point of distribution, and via a single access link, first and second outgoing calls of respective different ones of said application types originating from a particular subscriber location, said respective different ones of said outgoing call application types including two of POTS, ISDN, video and data, and muting each of said outgoing calls from said point of distribution to a particular one of said intelligent network element servers, said particular one of said intelligent network element servers being determined based on the application type of said each outgoing call.
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16. Apparatus for use in a telecommunications network which includes a plurality of intelligent network element servers supporting respective telecommunications application types, said apparatus including a point of distribution which comprises
means for receiving, via a single access link, first and second outgoing calls of respective different ones of said application types originating from a particular subscriber location, said respective different ones of said outgoing call application types including two of POTS, ISDN, video and data, and means for routing each of said outgoing calls from said point of distribution to a particular one of said intelligent network element servers that supports the application type of said each outgoing call.
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