Method for determining concurrent voice over IP calls
US7298832B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Sep 7, 2005 |
| Grant date | Nov 20, 2007 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Sep 9, 2025 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04M2215/202
- WIPO fieldTelecommunications
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A method employs call detail records for developing a report on the usage of VoIP calling along a network path or through a network location. By utilizing, for example, a call-beginning record and a call-ending record for each connection, a report is created of the number of concurrent VoIP calls that a specified equipment or network path carries at any given instance by retrieving batches of stored call detail records, culling the records that are relevant to the specified equipment or network path, considering the culled records in a time sorted manner, and incrementing or decrementing a counter based on whether a considered record is a call-beginning record or a call-ending record, respectively. The state of the counter is reported, illustratively, as a line entry each time the counter's state is modified.
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