Patent ID: 8792634

Claim:
A method for compensating the levels of tone signals for line interface losses, comprising: retrieving a loss amount value from a configuration file, the loss value being associated with adjustments to the signaling information separately from adjustments applied to received voice information; adjusting the output level of a tone signal generator used to generate signaling information to set up and tear down telephonic calls, the adjusting being based on the loss amount value retrieved from the configuration file wherein adjusting the output level of a tone signal generator is performed separately of any adjustment of output level applied to received voice information; attenuating incoming call signaling and the adjusted output level of tone signals generated by the tone signal generator by an amount that corresponds to the loss amount value, wherein attenuation is applied to call signaling and the adjusted output level of tone signals separately of any attenuation applied to received voice information; and providing the attenuated incoming call signaling and attenuated output signals of the tone generator to a user device.