System and method for dynamic telephony resource allocation between premise and hosted facilities
US8891511B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Jan 11, 2013 |
| Grant date | Nov 18, 2014 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jan 11, 2033 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04M3/5237
- WIPO fieldTelecommunications
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A population of networked Application Gateway Centers or voice centers provides telephony resources. The telephony application for a call number is typically created by a user in XML (Extended Markup Language) with predefined telephony XML tags and deployed on a website. A voice center provides facility for retrieving the associated XML application from its website and processing the call accordingly. The individual voice centers are either operated at a hosted facility or at a customer's premise. Provisioning Management Servers help to allocate telephony resources among the voice centers. This is accomplished by suitably updating a voice center directory. In this way, the original capacity at a premise, predetermined by the hardware installed, can be adjusted up or down. If the premise is under capacity, it can be supplemented by that from a hosted facility. If the premise has surplus capacity, it can be reallocated for use by others outside the premise.
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