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Intelligent call switching node in an intelligent distributed network architecture

  • US 6,418,461 B1
  • Filed: 08/05/1998
  • Issued: 07/09/2002
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/06/1997
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. In an intelligent communications network for use in a communications system, said network comprising:

  • at least one intelligent distributed network node;

    at least one intelligent switching node having at least one intelligent call processor;

    a network management system for monitoring and controlling said communications network and said at least one intelligent switching node;

    a resource complex communicably linked but logically separated from said at least one intelligent call processor;

    said at least one intelligent call processor further comprising;

    a logical platform having a plurality of functions wherein at least one of the functions is a service processing function, at least one of the functions is a call processing function, at least one of the functions is a facility processing function, said plurality of functions being capable of migration to at least two different computer architectures; and

    a processor for executing the plurality of functions, said processor providing a flexible and scalable architecture.

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