Patent ID: 7848313
Filing Date: 2010-12-07
Classification: H04L,H04M

Abstract:
1. A method, comprising: receiving a call notice from a telephony signaling control network, the call notice including TDM parameters, the TDM parameters including a TDM time slot over which a call will be carried and a trunk line that couples an ATM source gateway to a telephony network, the TDM time slot being associated with the trunk line that couples the ATM source gateway to the telephony network; sending an acknowledgement to the telephony signaling control network, the acknowledgment is an ATM-TDM correlation tag having information that associates an ATM connection with the TDM parameters, the ATM connection being used to transport the call from the ATM source gateway to an ATM destination gateway; sending the ATM-TDM correlation tag to the ATM destination gateway; and receiving said ATM-TDM correlation tag from said ATM destination gateway as a SETUP message.