Telemetry feature protocol expansion
First Claim
1. A control method for use by a telephone switching system, said system being in an arrangement where an accessing device is connected by at least one trunk (UTT) to a switching network internal to said switching system, and where said network is connected via customer lines to a plurality of destinations, said method comprisingsaid switching system receiving trunk signaling including a function identifier from said data accessing device on said at least one trunk, said function identifier comprises:
- customer premises equipment (CPE) alert codes, switch function codes, and control data,in response to said received signaling, said switching system implements control activities including controlling connections between said accessing device and at least one of said destinations via said network and in accordance with said function identifier.
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Abstract
An expanded telemetry feature protocol allowing the provision of additional transport capabilities: 1) switch alert of CPE or voice equipment, 2) activation of other switch capabilities, 3) a barge-in capability, and 4) a broadcast capability. A telemetry function identification is included in the protocol to define a plurality of telemetry applications. Other extensions to the protocol allow sequential broadcast of voice or data to a list of destinations, operation with an analog display station interface (ADSI) station, and subaddressing to specify particular destinations.
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15 Claims
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1. A control method for use by a telephone switching system, said system being in an arrangement where an accessing device is connected by at least one trunk (UTT) to a switching network internal to said switching system, and where said network is connected via customer lines to a plurality of destinations, said method comprising
said switching system receiving trunk signaling including a function identifier from said data accessing device on said at least one trunk, said function identifier comprises: - customer premises equipment (CPE) alert codes, switch function codes, and control data,
in response to said received signaling, said switching system implements control activities including controlling connections between said accessing device and at least one of said destinations via said network and in accordance with said function identifier. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
- customer premises equipment (CPE) alert codes, switch function codes, and control data,
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10. A telephone switching system comprising
a switching network for interconnecting a multiplicity of telecommunications trunks and a multiplicity of customer lines, at least one of said trunks connectable to a device for accessing a customer premises device, means for selectively generating any one of a plurality of device alerting signals, and processor means for a) translating a class of service of said at least one trunk, b) in response to said translating and to receipt, on said at least one trunk, of a function identification of a first kind, establishing a suppressed ringing connection through said network on which device alerting signals from said accessing device are transmitted to a customer line and c) in response to said translating and to receipt, on said at least one trunk, of a function identification of a second kind, controlling the generation and transmission of device alerting signals from within said switching system to a customer line.
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11. A control method for use by a telephone switching system in an arrangement where an accessing device (20) is connected by at least one trunk (UTT)to a switching network internal to said switching system, where said network is connected via customer lines to a plurality of customer premises devices and to voice stations associated with ones of said customer premises devices, said at least one trunk having a class of service defined for telemetry or voice communication, said method comprising
receiving trunk signaling including telemetry function identifications from said accessing device via said at least one trunk, controlling telemetry between said accessing device and said customer premises devices via said network in accordance with ones of said identifications, and enabling the communication of voice from said data accessing device to said voice stations via said network in accordance with others of said identifications.
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