Telecommunications network
First Claim
1. A method of setting up a call between a first terminal coupled by a local link to a program controlled switching system in a first switched telecommunications network and a second terminal coupled by a local link to a program controlled switching system in a second switched telecommunications network, comprising the steps of:
- detecting dialing of a number by the first terminal;
in response to the detection, creating a first signaling packet identifying the dialed number, the first signaling packet being in an interoffice signaling protocol of the first switched telecommunications network;
transmitting the first signaling packet to a first interface to an internetwork separate from the first and second switched telecommunications networks;
encapsulating the first signaling packet in a packet of a second protocol compatible with the internetwork;
transmitting the packet of the second protocol via the internetwork to a second interface between the internetwork and the second switched telecommunications network;
transmitting the signaling packet from the second interface to a node of the second switched telecommunications network;
based on information in the node of the second switched telecommunications network deciding to proceed with call processing;
based on the decision, creating a second signaling packet in an interoffice signaling protocol of the second switched telecommunications network;
transmitting the second signaling packet to the second interface to the internetwork;
encapsulating the second signaling packet in another packet of the second protocol compatible with the internetwork;
transmitting said another packet of the second protocol via the internetwork to the first responsive to the receipt of said another packet of the second protocol in the first switched telecommunications network, establishing a communication path between the first and second terminals.
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Abstract
A system and method for controlling on a worldwide basis two or more telecommunications networks which are themselves capable of exercising a form of common channel signaling network control. The system uses an architecture in which a destination telecommunications network having common channel signaling control is connected to an originating telecommunications network having common signaling control through a call set up and control methodology which provides ad hoc connection between the two spaced telecommunication networks and common channel signaling networks via an unrelated world wide data network which preferably constitutes the Internet.
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9 Claims
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1. A method of setting up a call between a first terminal coupled by a local link to a program controlled switching system in a first switched telecommunications network and a second terminal coupled by a local link to a program controlled switching system in a second switched telecommunications network, comprising the steps of:
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detecting dialing of a number by the first terminal;
in response to the detection, creating a first signaling packet identifying the dialed number, the first signaling packet being in an interoffice signaling protocol of the first switched telecommunications network;
transmitting the first signaling packet to a first interface to an internetwork separate from the first and second switched telecommunications networks;
encapsulating the first signaling packet in a packet of a second protocol compatible with the internetwork;
transmitting the packet of the second protocol via the internetwork to a second interface between the internetwork and the second switched telecommunications network;
transmitting the signaling packet from the second interface to a node of the second switched telecommunications network;
based on information in the node of the second switched telecommunications network deciding to proceed with call processing;
based on the decision, creating a second signaling packet in an interoffice signaling protocol of the second switched telecommunications network;
transmitting the second signaling packet to the second interface to the internetwork;
encapsulating the second signaling packet in another packet of the second protocol compatible with the internetwork;
transmitting said another packet of the second protocol via the internetwork to the first responsive to the receipt of said another packet of the second protocol in the first switched telecommunications network, establishing a communication path between the first and second terminals. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4)
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5. An interface for communication of interoffice signaling messages relating to set-up of a call, comprising:
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a first coupling, for message routing connection to a signaling link of a common channel interoffice signaling network of a public switched telephone network for sending and receiving interoffice call set-up messages to and from the signaling network in a call set-up part of an interoffice signaling protocol;
a second coupling, for message routing connection to an open-access, non-proprietary internetwork connecting spaced dissimilar networks and using an internetwork transmission protocol for communications between the dissimilar networks; and
means, interconnected between the first and second couplings, for protocol conversion of the interoffice call set-up messages between the call set-up part of the interoffice signaling protocol and the internetwork transmission protocol, to enable communication of call set-up messages to and from the interoffice signaling network via the internetwork, wherein;
the call set-up part of the interoffice signaling protocol comprises ISDN users part of signaling system 7, and the means for protocol conversion converts between messages in the ISDN users part of signaling system 7 and the internetwork transmission protocol. - View Dependent Claims (6, 7, 8, 9)
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