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Telecommunications system

  • US 6,141,339 A
  • Filed: 04/04/1997
  • Issued: 10/31/2000
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/04/1997
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A communications system for providing communications services to an end-user having a communications hub, wherein the communications system comprises:

  • a session manager that is operational to receive and process service requests from the communications hub to provide connection instructions and signaling instructions;

    a call manager that is coupled to the session manager and a Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) and that is operational to exchange signaling with the PSTN in response to the signaling instructions from the session manager;

    a multiplexer that is operational to convert between an ATM over DSL format and an ATM over broadband format;

    an ATM switching system that is coupled to the session manager, the multiplexer, and the PSTN, and that is operational to convert between the ATM over broadband format and a PSTN format and provide ATM connections in response to the connection instructions from the session manager; and

    wherein one of the service requests is for an end-user telephone call, a portion of the signaling instructions results in an exchange of signaling with the PSTN for the telephone call, and a portion of the connection instructions results in a connection for the telephone call from the communications hub through the multiplexer and the ATM switching system to the PSTN.

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