Patent ID: 6980637
Filing Date: 2005-12-27
Classification: H04M,H04Q

Abstract:
1. A method for servicing a telephone call made in a telecommunications network, comprising: installing an interconnect bus in a telecommunication network; storing processing and routing information relating to the telephone call in a database, said database in communication with said interconnect bus; preparing a plurality of instructions specifying functions for servicing the telephone call in the network; incorporating in the network a processor in communication with said interconnect bus; incorporating into the network a communications unit in communication with a plurality of interconnected network elements in the telecommunications network and in communication with said interconnect bus; and forming in the network an information packet associated with the telephone call, said information packet containing data which supports one of the functions of the network, said information packet being transmitted from at least one of the plurality of interconnected network elements to said communications unit, wherein said information packet comprises a message part and a transaction part, the message part being transmitted between the interconnected network elements in response to the call traversing the network elements, the transaction information part being appended to the message part prior to said information packet being transmitted from at least one of the plurality of interconnected network elements to said communications unit.