Method of operating a virtual private network

US6141409A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• AMERITECH LLC · US

Inventors

• Pitsa Madoch · Glenview, US
• Wayne Robert Heinmiller · Elgin, US
• Christopher Michael LeBeau · Arlington Heights, US
• John Wesley Moss · Lake Zurich, US
• Dianna Tiliks · Elk Grove Village, US
• Walter Martin Malinowski · Naperville, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 13, 1997
• Grant date: Oct 31, 2000
• Expiry date: Nov 13, 2017

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10S379/901
• WIPO field: Telecommunications
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A method of operating a virtual private network includes the steps of: (a) dialing a custom number; (b) receiving the custom number at a switch (20) of a first carrier; (c) routing the call to a switch (18) of a second carrier based on having received the custom number; and (d) when the call to the switch (18) of the second carrier includes a plain old telephone number translation of the customer number, routing the call over the second carrier to a service switching point (26) of a third carrier.