Patent ID: 7006487

Claim:
Telecommunications apparatus between a voice frame network gatekeeper and an intelligent peripheral, the apparatus comprising: a voice frame network connection for coupling the gatekeeper to the intelligent peripheral; a protocol over said connection that provides supplemental services messaging between the gatekeeper and the intelligent peripheral, said protocol conveying a request from the gatekeeper to the intelligent peripheral and a response from the intelligent peripheral to the gatekeeper; and a command structure embedded in such request/response protocol, said command structure including a call-transfer request/response sequence to which the gatekeeper is responsive; wherein said protocol and said command structure comply with International H.323 and H.225 standards, said command structure further includes play-recorded-audio and play-recorded-audio-and-await-digital-input sequences to which the intelligent peripheral is responsive, and said command structure further includes a flex-parameter-block, play-recorded-audio-and-terminate-call, and play-recorded-audio-using-specified-script sequences to which the gatekeeper is responsive, wherein said flex-parameter-block sequence invokes in the gatekeeper a response.