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Arrangement for providing a call-connection service

  • US RE34,529 E
  • Filed: 01/23/1992
  • Issued: 02/01/1994
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/29/1989
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. Apparatus for providing a call-connection service to a customer of the service in a network of communication nodes, the apparatus comprising:

  • means in a first one of the nodes for responding to a request from the customer for establishment of a call path between second and third ones of the nodes, by obtaining from a fourth one of the nodes call-routing information pertaining to the second and third ones of the nodes, the first one of the nodes being under control of the service provider, and the second, third, and fourth ones of the nodes being under control of the customer, andmeans in the first one of the nodes for interconnecting, in response to the obtained call-routing information, a) a call path extending between the first one of the nodes and the second one of the nodes and b) a call path extending between the first one of the nodes and the third one of the nodes to form a call path between and second and third ones of the nodes which bypasses the fourth one of the nodes.

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