Application Server Components for Remote Telephony Line-Side Services
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users accessing telephony services on remote networks often receive different line-side services than those provided by their home network, and networks not interacting through local-loops, such as Inter Exchange Carriers, cannot provide these services, missing revenue opportunities.
Innovation Solution
Employing data streams to provide line-side services to telephony devices on remote networks by establishing a virtual bearer path and using application server components to register and interact with line-side services associated with a home network address, allowing remote networks to offer the same services as home networks.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a user employs a telephony device on a remote network to initiate a call, then the telephony device can access services on the remote network, but the user receives different line-side services than those provided by the home network
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an application server component that acts as an intermediary between the telephony device on the remote network and the line-side services on the home network. This intermediary establishes a data stream connection that bridges the remote network and home network, allowing the user to access home network services while physically connected to the remote network. The application server component translates and relays service requests, ensuring service consistency across different network infrastructures.
2Ease of manufacture
If networks that do not interact with telephony devices through local-loops (e.g., IXCs) are unable to provide line-side services, then network complexity is reduced, but revenue opportunities are lost
Solution Approach 1:
The application server component provides multi-functionality by enabling networks without local-loop infrastructure (such as IXCs) to deliver line-side services. The component can establish data stream connections to various types of networks and provide services including call waiting, call forwarding, and caller identification. This universal approach allows any network to offer these services through the application server, transforming previously service-incapable networks into service-providing networks and creating new revenue streams.
Data Source
AI summary
One or more application server components employ one or more data streams to provide to a telephony device on a remote network for a user one or more line-side services associated with a network address on a home network for the user.