Intelligent peripheral in video dial tone network

[54] INTELLIGENT PERIPHERAL IN VIDEO DIAL TONE NETWORK

[75] Inventor: David F. Wheeler, Jr., Silver Spring, Md.

[73] Assignee: Bell Atlantic, Arlington, Va.

[21] Appl. No.: 311,461
[22] Filed: Sep. 12,1994

Related U.S. Application Data

[63] Continuation-in-part of Ser. No. 248,980, May 25, 1994, which is a continuation-in-part of Ser. No. 869,931, Apr. 17, 1992, Pat. No. 5,418,844.

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[58] Field of Search 379/207, 229,

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Primary Examiner—Jeffery Hofsass

Assistant Examiner—Devendra Kumar

Attorney, Agent, or Firm—Lowe, Price, LeBlanc & Becker

[57] ABSTRACT

A peripheral platform, such as an Intelligent Peripheral (IP), is a network subsystem for use in the Advanced Intelligent Network (AIN). The IP will assume some functions presently performed by the Integrated Service Control Point (ISCP) and central office switches. In an integrated network offering interactive broadband services as well as voice telephone services, the IP also performs gateway and/or server functions for broadband communications. Among its functional capabilities will be voice announcement and digit collection. The IP also offers speech recognition capabilities and an array of other enhanced telephone call processing features, such as voice or facsimile messaging. The peripheral platform or IP will be a separate network component that will communicate with the ISCP, which controls the AIN, through a data communication network that in the preferred embodiments is distinct from the telephone company switching offices, trunk networks and any associated interoffice signalling network. Gateway functionalities performed by the IP include communications port management of transmissions of information between subscribers and broadband servers, processing of billing information and session management.

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