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Communication system control arrangement

US4713806A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateMar 14, 1986
Grant dateDec 15, 1987
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Expiry dateMar 14, 2006

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04Q11/0407
  • WIPO fieldTelecommunications
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

In a multiservices digital network (FIG. 1), comprising separate narrowband switch (607) and wideband switches (505, 606), the network control complex (612) includes a program-controlled call processing arrangement (800) that is program-independent of a resource management arrangement (803) and of the physical network. The call processing arrangement views the network as comprising logical channels and logical call paths interconnecting logical channels. It does not distinguish between narrowband and wideband communications; it responds to subscriber (102) messages requesting subscriber functions for both narrowband and wideband communications by directing the resource management arrangement to establish and dismantle logical call paths and to create and destroy logical and physical connections between the logical channels and the logical call paths. The resource management arrangement distinguishes between narrowband and wideband communications; it responds to the directions by allocating and deallocating either narrowband or wideband network physical resources, as appropriate, for physical channels and physical call paths corresponding to the logical channels and the logical call…

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