Patent ID: 7483381
Filing Date: 2009-01-27
Classification: H04L,H04Q

Abstract:
1. A method of operating a remote testing access system, the method comprising: receiving a test call in an access device from a test device over an incoming time division multiplexed (TDM) connection, receiving a test request in a TDM format over the call wherein the test request indicates a one port of a plurality of ports, wherein the plurality of ports correspond to a plurality of outgoing TDM connections coupling the access device to a conversion device, and wherein the plurality of outgoing TDM connections correspond to a plurality of service applications on a soft switch, and selecting and connecting the test call to the conversion device on a one outgoing TDM connection of the plurality of outgoing TDM connections that corresponds to the one port in response to the test request; and coupling the conversion device to the access device by the plurality of outgoing TDM connections and establishing a packet connection with a one service application of the plurality of service applications corresponding to the one outgoing TDM connection, receiving communications for the test call in a TDM format, converting the communications to a packet format, and transmitting communications for the test call to the one service application in the packet format over the packet connection; in the access device, bridging the incoming TDM connection to the one outgoing TDM connection of the plurality of outgoing TDM connections based on the test request; in the conversion device, selecting the one service application of the soft switch corresponding to the one outgoing TDM connection; and transmitting the communications in the packet format to the one service application.