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Patent US8224337 - Methods, systems, and computer readable media for providing foreign routing ... - Google Patents
The subject matter described herein includes methods, systems, and computer readable media for providing foreign routing address information to a telecommunications network gateway. According to one aspect, the method includes, at a call signaling message routing node in a first telecommunications network,...http://www.google.com/patents/US8224337?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US8224337 - Methods, systems, and computer readable media for providing foreign routing address information to a telecommunications network gateway
Publication number US8224337 B2
Application number US 12/883,886
Also published as US20110098049, WO2011035050A2, WO2011035050A3
Publication number 12883886, 883886, US 8224337 B2, US 8224337B2, US-B2-8224337, US8224337 B2, US8224337B2
Inventors Bradley W Gosnell, Michael Coupland, Amrit Pal Singh Wadhwa, Peter Joseph Marsico
Patent Citations (217), Non-Patent Citations (140), Referenced by (7), Classifications (16), Legal Events (5)
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U.S. Classification 455/445, 455/432.1, 455/433, 379/221.13, 370/352
Cooperative Classification H04L65/104, H04L12/66, H04L29/1216, H04L61/157, H04L12/6418
European Classification H04L12/66, H04L29/12A2H, H04L29/06M2N2S4, H04L12/64B, H04L61/15H