Patent ID: 6295353
Filing Date: 2001-09-25
Classification: H04M

Abstract:
A method of updating node status information of a call router that routes calls to ones of a plurality of call processing nodes, comprising:a call processing node sending to the call router status-update messages and not the calls to affect the call router's routing of the calls to the ones of the nodes;the node detecting a change in its status;in response, the node determining whether the change in its status since a last time that a change in its status has been reported to the call router has reached a threshold amount;in response to determining that the threshold amount has been reached, the node sending one of said status-update messages reporting the change in its status to the call router; andin response to determining that the threshold amount has not been reached, the node forbearing from reporting the change in its status to the call router until such time as the threshold amount of change in its status is reached.