Intelligent call platform for an intelligent distributed network architecture

US6560646B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• MCI Communications Corporation · US

Inventors

• Robert Barnhouse · Plano, US
• Doug Cardy · Plano, US
• Kelvin Porter · Dallas, US
• Ken Rambo · Allen, US
• Carol Waller · Allen, US
• Wendy Wong · Dallas, US
• George Yao · Irving, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 6, 2001
• Grant date: May 6, 2003
• Expiry date: Sep 6, 2021

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10S379/90
• WIPO field: Telecommunications
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

The present invention provides an intelligent call processor, an intelligent switching node and an intelligent communications network for use in a communications system. The intelligent call processor comprises a logical platform having a plurality of functions wherein at least one of the functions is service processing function, at least one of the functions is call processing, and at least one of the functions is facility processing, and a processor for executing the plurality of functions. The intelligent switching node comprises an intelligent call processor and, a resource complex communicably linked to the intelligent call processor and logically separated from the intelligent call processor. The intelligent communications network comprises a plurality of intelligent distributed network nodes, a network management system for monitoring and controlling a wide area network and the plurality of intelligent switching nodes, and the wide area network interconnecting the plurality of intelligent distributed network nodes and the network management system.