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System and method for implementing user-to-user data transfer services

  • US 5,912,887 A
  • Filed: 06/27/1996
  • Issued: 06/15/1999
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/27/1996
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. In a communications network over which a first user communicates with a second user via a signaling network that is independent of voice channel paths of the communications network, a system for allowing the first user to send user-to-user data to the second user, comprising:

  • means for determining whether a frame of data from the first user includes user-to-user data to be transferred to the second user;

    means for formatting said user-to-user data for transfer; and

    means for sending said formatted user-to-user data to the second user via a path that is independent of both the signaling network and the voice channel paths of the communications network.

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