Patent ID: 7161932
Filing Date: 2007-01-09
Classification: H04Q

Abstract:
1. In a telephone communication system having a packet-data network and a time domain multiplexing network, time-domain-multiplexing telephonic stations of the time domain multiplexing network identified pursuant to a first selected numbering plan and packet-based telephonic stations of the packet data network identified by an other-than-first-selected numbering plan, an improvement of an assembly for facilitating placement of a call originated at an originating telephonic station of the time-domain-multiplexing telephonic station for completion at a terminating telephonic station of the packet-based telephonic stations, said assembly comprising: a session establishment creator positioned at the packet-based network and coupled to receive indications of originating telephonic station, the origination of the call effectuated through entry at the originating telephonic station of a selected identification sequence defined pursuant to the first selected numbering plan, said session establishment creator for creating a session permitting communication therefrom with the originating telephonic station and for detecting entry by the originating telephonic station of an identifier that identifies the termination station, the identifier used by said session establishment creator to complete the call with the terminating telephonic station; media gateway positioned to interconnect the packet-based telephonic network and the time domain multiplexing network and wherein indications of the call originated at the originating telephonic station are provided by the media gateway to said session establishment creator, wherein the media gateway is identified by an identifier conforming to the first selected numbering plan and wherein the indications of the origination of the call are provided to said session establishment creator subsequent to delivery of the call origination at the media gateway; and an index database in which an IP address associated with the terminating telephonic station is indexed together with a mnemonic associated therewith and wherein the identifier entered by the originating telephonic station comprises representation of the mnemonic.