Patent ID: 6028914
Filing Date: 2000-02-22
Classification: H04M,H04Q

Abstract:
A monitoring system for use in a communications network in which call control information pertaining to a communication link carrying voice or data signals between system users pass through one or more network components, wherein said network components are geographically separated from each other, said monitoring system comprising:processors associated with particular ones of said network components, said processors operable for receiving and temporarily storing therein selected call control information as said call control information passes through said associated network components, said stored call control information identifiable for a particular transaction, wherein said each of said processors comprise:means for storing all selected call control information for a particular transaction in a unified list sorted by time of occurrence of said call control information;means for communicating with other said processors, said communicating means permitting said processors to exchange data related to said particular transaction, wherein said processors comprise means for detecting said data having a same identifying code;means for allowing said processors to identify one of said processors as a controlling processor for said particular transaction; andmeans for combining said unified lists for all stored selected call control information for said particular transaction in said controlling processor.