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Networked telephony central offices

  • US 5,907,610 A
  • Filed: 03/31/1998
  • Issued: 05/25/1999
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/11/1996
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A method for managing communications with one or more telephony central offices comprising a network, comprising;

  • providing a local area network within each of said one or more telephony central offices;

    determining a plurality of process interfaces within the local area network for each of said one or more telephony central offices, each said process interface being connected via its corresponding local area network to said network;

    performing for each of said process interfaces the following steps (A1) through (A2);

    (A1) identifying a corresponding set of hardware components wherein network communications with the process interface utilize a corresponding communication channel defined by said hardware components of said set;

    (A2) assigning a corresponding network address for routing network communications to the process interface, wherein said corresponding network address comprises an encoded identification of each hardware component of said set of hardware components for the corresponding communication channel;

    wherein each of said process interfaces is responsive to its corresponding network address when the corresponding network address is identified in network communications by the process interface; and

    providing one or more of said corresponding network addresses for communicating with one or more of said process interfaces on the network, wherein communications with any said one or more of said process interfaces are routed through the local area network corresponding with such process interface.

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