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Telecommunication system with multilink host computer call control interface system and method

US5500891A · kind A · utility

52Cited by
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18Claims
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Key dates

Filing dateSep 30, 1994
Grant dateMar 19, 1996
Priority date
Expiry dateSep 30, 2014

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04Q2213/13106
  • WIPO fieldTelecommunications
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A telecommunication system (10) having a single automatic call distributor (12) with a multiport switch (14) controlled by a central control processing unit (16) and an associated memory (18) for selectively interconnecting telephonic calls between external telephonic units (20) of an external telephonic network (24) and internal telephonic units (26A, 26B, 26C, 26D) coupled with the multiport switch (14) with a multilink host computer call control interface system (25) having a plurality of host computers (32A, 32B, 32C, 32D) coupled to the automatic call distributor and logical link interfaces (36A, 36B, 36C, 36D) each having a pair of physical link lines (38A, 38B, 38C, 38D) which correspond to an associated host computer (32A, 32B, 32C, 32D) to enable communication between the single automatic call distributor (12) and the plurality of host computers (32A, 32B, 32C, 32D) to provide the host computers with control of call handling operations performed at the automatic call distributor (12).

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