Patent ID: 6078582
Filing Date: 2000-06-20
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
A method of telecommunication over the Internet comprising:establishing a dedicated virtual path having a prescribed bandwidth between at least first and second telephony servers having respective network addresses specifying points of presence on the Internet, the first and second telephony servers connected to first and second telephone systems, respectively;storing in a routing and administration database the prescribed bandwidth and, for each of said telephony servers, the network address and area codes served within the corresponding telephone system;receiving at the first telephony server a call request initiated by a calling party within the first telephone network, the call request including a calling party number corresponding to the calling party and a called party number, the called party number including an area code;sending a routing request by the first telephony server to routing and administration database including the calling party number and the area code of the called party number;outputting from the routing and administration database a bandwidth allocation and the network address of the second telephony server in response to the area code supplied by the routing request, the routing and administration database providing said bandwidth allocation from the prescribed bandwidth;sending signaling data packets by the first telephony server to the second telephony server along the dedicated virtual path, the signaling data packets including the called party number and the bandwidth allocation; andestablishing a communication link between the first telephony server and the second telephony server according to the bandwidth allocation to establish communication between the calling party and a destination corresponding to the called party number.