Patent ID: 7194078

Claim:
A time-division multiplexing (TDM) communications network resource usage control system, comprising: a plurality of servers in the TDM communications network adapted to execute supplementary communications service requests; a network services control system (NRCR) connected to each external interface of said plurality of servers to receive and decode supplementary service information for the supplementary communications service being requested; and a control program responsive to said NRCR to select which of said plurality of servers will execute said communications services; wherein an NRCR at at least one of said plurality of servers in a communication path of said supplementary service communications request is adapted to intercept a supplementary communications service request to determine whether execution of said supplementary communications service request is carried out by a server other than an original requested server, perform a link optimization based on a type of supplementary service being requested and redirect said supplementary service communications request to said other server over the TDM communications network.